Maintaining Evaluation Paths

Procedure

To maintain evaluation paths, choose the IMG activity SAP Web Application Server Business Management SAP Business Workflow Basic Settings (Organizational Management) Number Range Maintenance Maintain Evaluation Paths. When the system is in operation, use transaction OOAW.

Here you find the maintenance view Change Evaluation Paths: Overview for the evaluation paths.
Assign a name to the evaluation path (maximum of eight alphanumeric characters).
Go to the dependent view Evaluation Paths (Individual Maintenance).
Describe the relationship chain to be used for the evaluation.
To establish the permitted relationships for an object type, use report RHRELAT0.

When using an evaluation path in a view, you should consider the following:
- Define the evaluation path in such a manner that the relationship chain always starts from a user (object type US in Organizational Management) and ends at an organizational unit, a position or a user.
- When defining the evaluation path, use the Skip indicator (see below) in order not to overload the result of the evaluation.
When using an evaluation path in a rule for agent determination, you should consider the following:
- Define the evaluation path in such a manner that the relationship chain starts from the object type of Organizational Management, which you can pass in the rule container.
- If you set the indicator Skip, this part of the evaluation path is taken into account but is not output.
Always enter * in the field Priority.

Before creating new evaluation paths, check the evaluation paths available as standard.

Example

Starting from an organizational unit, evaluation path O-S-P establishes all persons who belong to this organizational unit or subordinate organizational units via their positions. Evaluation path O-S-P is defined as follows:

No.	Object Type	A/B	Linkage	Link description	Priority	Type	Skip
10	O	B	003	includes	*	S
20	S	A	008	Owner	*	P
30	O	B	002	is line manager of	*	O

The relationship defined in the last line ensures that user assignments in subordinate organizational units are included in the evaluation path as well.

Since the indicator Skip is not set in any of the lines, evaluations always display all the objects determined.

Starting from a person or a user, evaluation path WF_ORGUN first establishes the relevant position and then the organizational unit to which this position belongs. Evaluation path WF_ORGUN is defined as follows:

No.	Object Type	A/B	Linkage	Link description	Priority	Type	Skip
10	US	A	208	is identical to	*	P	x
20	*	B	008	Owner	*	S	x
30	S	A	003	belongs to	*	O

This evaluation path works both when the positions are occupied by users and when the positions are occupied by persons who are then assigned to users.

This evaluation path can be used with a user or a person as the starting point.

Since the Skip indicator is set in the first two lines, evaluations only display the organizational units found recently.