Enhancement of Info Objects

Use

In enhancements you can use SAP info objects (if available) or info objects of other basic standard contexts by:

• linking to SAP info objects or info objects of other basic standard contexts

  You can link to or include structures.

• creating enhancements to info objects and modifying these enhancements to meet your requirements.

The following diagram shows how you can use SAP structures.

To reuse standard SAP structures unchanged in your enhancement, either link to it (I.a) or include it (I.b). If a subsequent enhancement release is based on a more recent SAP release, this kind of reuse automatically uses the most recent SAP structure version.

If you only want to use a SAP structure in your enhancements in modified form, you must first create an enhancement version of the structure. This can then be modified and if necessary referenced with a link (II.a) or an include (II.b).

Enhancing SAP objects has the following advantages compared to creating info objects:

• It saves the effort required to create the structure and topics. This is particularly significant when only minor modifications should be made to the standard system.

• Standard help links remain valid. These links can thus be used unchanged in an enhancement. Links to the info objects remain valid and the enhancement object now appears in the enhancement context in all places that link to the SAP object on which it is based.

• Any references to the info objects are transferred as well. That is, the enhancement object now appears in the enhancement context at all locations where the underlying SAP object is linked.

Activities

You link enhancement objects to SAP objects with hyperlinks (see Maintaining Hyperlinks Between Content Objects).

You link enhancement structures to SAP objects by putting them in the structure.

You link enhancement structures to SAP structures by putting them in the structure as a link or an include.

You create and modify enhancement versions of SAP objects.