How to Use the What's New Viewer for SAP Business ByDesign

Learn how to get the What's New information for SAP Business ByDesign that you are most interested in.

List View Versus Table View

The information in the What’s New Viewer is shown by default using the Table View. Toggle to theList View to see the information as a group of cards where you see a card for each change, with the cards for the most recent or upcoming changes at the top of the list.

Preview Cards for Preliminary What's New

To help you prepare for upcoming changes, we publish a preliminary version of our What’s New information for SAP Business ByDesign approximately two weeks before the actual delivery of the changes. To help you find these changes more easily, the word Preview is shown on the left side of the cards for these changes in the List View.

The preview content is provided as a courtesy, without a warranty, and may be subject to change. For more information, see the preview disclaimer.

Meaning of Action

The most important information for each What's New item is provided as the required Action. Three possible values are provided to help prevent disruption when you start to use new or changed features after an upgrade. The three possible values are as follows:
  • Required: Indicates a high disruption. You must act before the upgrade to prevent disruption. Follow the instructions explained in the Description section. If you don’t act on time, your processes may change in a way that may prevent your business users from doing their work.
  • Recommended: Indicates a medium or low disruption. You should act before the upgrade. Follow the instructions explained in the Description section. If you don’t act on time, the new feature, function, or process becomes active, but your business users may not know how to work as expected. A look at the documentation or some training could be required.
  • Info only: Indicates little or no disruption. Follow the information in the help documentation if needed.

Email Notifications

You can get an email notification whenever we publish changes by subscribing to the What’s New Viewer for SAP Business ByDesign . Here’s how it works:
  1. When you open the What’s New Viewer, if you are prompted to accept cookie settings, accept all required browser settings.
  2. Choose the avatar in the upper right corner.
  3. Enter your credentials to log on or choose Register if you do not have an account yet.
  4. If you want to only receive updates for a subset of the content, use the filter options to see the content that you are most interested. For example, you can use the Area filter to select the capabilities that you are interested in following.
  5. Choose the Subscribe button in the action bar above the What’s New Viewer.
  6. Select what you want to be notified about: a notification of any change (All updates) or only the content that matches your filtering.
  7. Save your settings.

What happens next? When we next publish an announcement of a change to a capability for SAP Business ByDesign, you’ll receive an email with a link right to the What’s New Viewer on the SAP Help Portal with all changes highlighted.

You can subscribe to multiple What’s New viewers for all products that offer this subscription feature. To view all your subscriptions, open the user menu in the upper right corner and choose My Subscriptions. You can unsubscribe from here and find instructions that describe how to update the filters.