Business Rule Framework: Rules for Change Processes in Leasing

Use

You use the Business Rule Framework (BRF) to define rules that influence the steps in the change process at item level.

You define actions that control how fields on the user interface are propagated.

The effect of this is that only the field values that you restricted via the BRF are processed via the Application Programming Interface (API) and displayed on the user interface.

The tool offers you maximum flexibility: You can edit the rules shipped in the standard system and create and assign your own rules.

In a contract, you can use rules to influence the following fields, for example:

Change Process

Effective Date

Term

Installment Calculation Procedure

For more information, see Business Rule Framework (BRF) .

Prerequisites

You have activated the Business Rule Framework for use in SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM): Customizing for Customer Relationship Management → Financial Services → Basic Functions → Business Rule Framework → Activate Business Rule Framework.

If you want to use rules for change processes, you must define these in the following Customizing activity: Customer Relationship Management → Financial Services → Leasing → Change Processes → Basic Settings for Change Processes → Define Rules for Change Processes.

You have the option of changing settings in the Business Rule Framework in Customizing, by choosing Customer Relationship Management → Financial Services → Basic Functions → Business Rule Framework.

Features

Event 0EVENT001(application class:CRM_CHANGE_PROCESS)

In this event, you can store rules for limiting the input fields in the change process. You use expressions to formulate the condition part of the rules. You use actions to define the limitation of the fields. You can therefore define which fields are to be possible on a situation basis.

Expressions

You can use tag expressions to refer to data from the application, for example refer the current change process to the financing item.

You can then perform the following:

Compare or process them further using other expressions. As a result, you formulate a condition for the rules.

Use them in the action for determining field whose values are to be limited.

You can use the following BRF standard expressions in SAP CRM:

Action

The Action for controlled propagation of fields enables you to specify limits for one or more fields. The field is first referenced using a tag expression. You can then include or exclude individual values or intervals for each field. In turn you can refer to expressions.

Standard Customizing

The following rules are shipped in the standard system:

Activities

You define your expressions, events, and actions in Customizing, by choosing Customer Relationship Management → Financial Services → Leasing → Change Processes → Basic Settings for Change Processes → Define Rules for Change Processes.

You use application classCRM_CHANGE_PROCESSto define input restrictions and default values.