Working Area (SAP Library - Engineering Workbench (PP-BD))

Working Area

Definition

The object types that you want to display and process in the Engineering Workbench. One of these object types is the focus of the working area, the others form the working environment.

Use

By selecting a suitable working area, you can adapt the Engineering Workbench to a particular task. Such tasks could be, for example:

Creating a BOM for design purposes
Processing component assignments that have been created by a particular department.

Structure

A working area consists of its focus and the working environment. The focus is the object type that you use for selection. The other object types that you want to display and process form the working environment

Focus

Only object types routing header, operation, BOM or item can be used as a focus of a working area.

Working Environment

You can include any object types from the Engineering Workbench in the working environment. However, certain object types can only be included in the working area in conjunction with other object types. If necessary, the system copies these object types to the working environment automatically.

Example

If you choose the operation object type as the focus of your worklist, then the system copies the header and sequence object types to the working environment automatically.

Example

If you copy the operation and item object types to your working environment, the system also copies the component assignment object type to the working environment.

For further information, refer to the implementation guide (IMG) of the Engineering Workbench, under Edit working areas.