Model Connection Development

Use

A model connection is a named collection of strategy management users associated with an Application Server user, which is associated with an Application Server model.

Model connection development involves setting up the connectivity between strategy management users, the Application Server user they are associated with, and the model to use when creating or viewing scorecards.

Once you create a model connection, you can associate it with a context.

Model connections control which users can use which models. For example, two users may have access to the same model connection, but one user may be associated with an Application Server user name that allows access to one aspect of a model. The other user may be associated with a different Application Server user name that allows access to a different aspect of the model.

Prerequisites

• You are running the administration application as the strategy management administrator. If Administration is unavailable to you, it means you are not running the administration application with an administrator username and password.

• Users are known to the application. This is set up by the system administrator when installing and configuring the application. For information, see the Installation Guide for SAP Strategy Management on the SAP Help Portal.

• The Application Server administrator has created the model and added Application Server users to them.

• The machine where the administration application is installed has access rights to the port where Application Server is installed. If you can telnet <hostname> 8325 from a DOS window, then you have the appropriate access rights.

• The system administrator has set the AuditLogComments Java System Property to Yes in the strategy management application in SAP NetWeaver. For information, see the Installation Guide for SAP Strategy Management on the SAP Help Portal. Then choose Configuring the Application Properties.

Features

You can do any of the following tasks when developing a model connection:

• Create a model connection. You can create up to 500 model connections. For more information, see Creating a Model Connection.

• Delete the selected model connection by clicking Delete.

• Rename the selected model connection by clicking Rename.

• Specify a different Application Server user for the model connection rather than the one selected. To do so, select the model connection and the Application Server user and click Rename.

• View a model connection's definitions by selecting it in the Model Connections list. By default, the definitions for the first Application Server user are displayed.

• View the Application Server users for a model connection in the Application Server Connections list.

• View the strategy management users assigned to an Application Server user by selecting the Application Server user name.

• Set up a model connection to use its model for reports and dashboards.

• Edit a model connection. To do so, select the model connection, then select the Application Server user, and then modify the fields.

• Add an Application Server user to the selected model connection by clicking New in the Application Server Connections section and then entering a new name and password in the PAS User and Password text boxes. Make sure the Application Server user is a user of the model you are adding to the model connection definition.

  You might want to add more than one Application Server user if you want to assign different views into the model. One Application Server might have a limited view of the model, while another user might have full view of the model. The Web authentication users assigned to an Application Server user inherit the Application Server user settings and have the same view into the model.

  If you add additional Application Server users to a model connection, and you use one or more system groups to define which authenticated users are assigned to which Application Server users, you must make sure that authenticated users are not duplicated between Application Server users. Otherwise, a connection is made with the first Application Server user found, and that user may not be the desired Application Server user.

• Remove an Application Server user from the selected model connection. To do so, select the Application Server user you want to delete and click Delete.

• Add a strategy management user to the selected model connection. By default, Everyone is selected for this connection and all strategy management users who have access to this Application Server user also have access to the model connection. Only one Application Server connection can have the Everyone setting for a model connection. To add specific users and system groups instead of everyone, choose whether to display by System Groups or Users. Then select the users or the groups from the list and click Add. These users must have access to the Application Server user name.

  Users displays the first 500 users. If there are more users to display, use the Get Full User List link.

• Remove a user from the selected model connection by selecting the user or system group in the right hand list in the Groups and Users section and click Remove.

• Test the connection to Application Server by selecting the model connection and Application Server user and clicking Test Connection. You receive a status message identifying whether the connection works as expected.

Activities

To develop model connections, choose Administration  Manage Models.