Structural Graphics (BC-BMT-GRF)

Use

Structural Graphics is a tool in the Organizational Management application component that lets you display and edit the structures and objects in your organizational plan. Structural Graphics is particularly advantageous since it lets you view objects and structures, and perform a variety of maintenance activities for the objects in graphical format.

Implementation Considerations

There are a number of ways you can access Structural Graphics. You can access it from Simple Maintenance or from the Organizational Management main menu by choosing Reporting  General  Structural Graphics.

When you maintain your organizational plan from the Structure Display/Maintenance screen (RHSTRU00), you can also access Structural Graphics.

For more detailed information about the basics of Organizational Management, see Organizational Management.

Integration

The graphical display and edit functions offered by Structural Graphics complement the tools provided in Simple Maintenance of Organizational Management.

The functions in Simple Maintenance are particularly suited to creating organizational and reporting structures in your organizational plan. Structural Graphics is advantageous in that it lets you graphically display the whole organizational plan, complete with the relationships between the various objects. In addition, it makes organizational planning and modeling in a graphical environment much easier.

Features

• Structural Graphics lets you make structural changes to your organizational plan by simply moving objects around in the hierarchical structure. You can move single objects or substructures within your organizational plan.

• You can perform maintenance activities using the Toolbox in conjunction with the main Graphics window. Alternatively, you can use the functions behind the menu options Utilities and Extras. The Toolbox is a collection of options that allow you to perform basic editing, for example, creating, inserting,moving, and delimiting. It is possible to customize the options offered in the Toolbox, so options may vary from company to company.

• Selecting objects in Structural Graphics is easy. You simply use the cursor to select the object you want to edit, and it appears highlighted in the Graphics window. You can select a number of objects by clicking the right mouse button and dragging the cursor.

• The function Maintain Infotypes lets you edit the attributes of objects. In the Object Description window, the list of infotype records maintained for the selected object is displayed for editing.

• Structural Graphics also offers you functions for changing the shapes and colors of objects, and adjusting the display format of your structure as required.