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Process documentationSAP Application Interface Framework for Business Users

 

If you are a business user, you can use the SAP Application Interface Framework for the following scenarios:

  • To get an overview of the interfaces you are responsible for and their current status, use the Interface Monitor (see Interface Monitor).

  • To correct errors, restart, or cancel messages, use Monitoring and Error Handling (see Error Handling).

  • To maintain a value mapping, use the Value Mapping transaction (see Value Mapping Maintenance).

Prerequisites

You have been defined as a recipient for the alerts for the specific interfaces in the area of the business for which you are the business super user. This means that you receive the alerts for error messages relevant to these interfaces.

This setting is made by interface developers in Customizing for SAP Application Interface Framework (transaction code /AIF/CUST) under Start of the navigation path System Configuration Next navigation step Assign Recipients End of the navigation path .

Process

Example of the Use of the SAP Application Interface Framework by a Business User

The following graphic shows an example of the use of the SAP Application Interface Framework scenarios by a business user handling error messages:

  1. There is a new alert in your alert inbox in Alert Management and, for example, you receive an e-mail that informs you.

  2. In your application system, you use one of the following options to start the Interface Monitor to see an overview of the interfaces that are assigned to you:

    • In SAP GUI

      • Use transaction code /AIF/IFMON.

      • In the SAP Easy Access menu, choose Start of the navigation path Cross Application Components Next navigation step SAP Application Interface Framework Next navigation step Interface Monitor End of the navigation path.

    • In the Web-based UI

      • Use transaction code /AIF/ERR_WEB.

      • In the SAP Easy Access menu, choose Start of the navigation path Cross Application Components Next navigation step SAP Application Interface Framework Next navigation step Monitoring and Error Handling (Web) End of the navigation path.

  3. In the Interface Monitor, you select the error icon for the interface for which the new alert is relevant and you go directly to Monitoring and Error Handling for the message.

  4. In SAP GUI, you confirm the receipt of the alert.

  5. You check the error and do one of the following:

    • Cancel

      There is no action required for this error and you can cancel it by choosing Cancel in the Data Messages view.

    • Fix the error and reprocess the message by choosing Restart (SAP GUI) or Reprocess (Web–based UI) in the Data Messages view

      You can fix the error in one of the following two ways:

      • Change the data in the Data Content view

      • Correct the value mapping, if the error resulted from a faulty or missing value mapping

        In the Log Messages view, you can select the application log message and choose Maintain Value Mapping.

Result

In this example of a business user handling error messages, in the Data Messages view, the message has a either the status Canceled Manually (Canceled Manually) or Processed Successfully (Processed Successfully).

More Information

For more information about the views in Monitoring and Error Handling, see Main Screen.