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Use

You can use this process to define a new overview for Business Context Viewer (BCV).

Process

To create a new overview, perform the following steps:

  1. Open the configuration center, and choose Define Overview.

  2. On the Create Overview screen, enter the context key and description ID. Press ENTER.

  3. You can now enter the description and configuration ID. You can also set the overview as private.

  4. Save your entries.

  5. You can now choose Define Layout and in the new window, select the query views that you want display in the new overview. Choose Query View Catalog to display the available query views that you can add to the overview.

    Note

    You have to define the query views before defining new overviews. For more information, see Definition of Query Views.

    Note

    You can also add CHIPs that are not provided by BCV to the overview. You can select these CHIPs from the Non-BCV CHIPs folder of the CHIP catalog. To use this feature, you must activate the FND, Business Context Viewer NWBC Side Panel (/BCV/NWBC_SIDEPANEL) business function.

  6. Define the position of the query view on the overview.

  7. Save the overview.