You can define your own tasks in addition to those tasks provided in the SAP standard task template. To build an organized task structure to meet your company’s organizational and IT-specific needs, you create task areas, which contain task groups, which contain individual tasks.
In the navigation area, choose the current system <SID><installation number>.
On the Define User Task Area tab, you create new task areas.
Enter a name for the area.
Save your entries.
On the Defining User Tasks Groups tab, you create new task groups belonging to a task area.
Choose a task area.
Enter a name for the new task group.
In the Action Type column, choose one of the following types:
Action type |
Action |
---|---|
PO System cad |
Operating system command |
Program |
Program name |
Transaction |
Transaction code |
URL |
URL |
Others |
No technical activity for execution specified |
Note
If you do not want to assign an action, such as a transaction or URL, to the task, you can use the action type Others. In this case, the system does not generate an Execute pushbutton in the header of the generated task.
In the Action column, enter the action.
Example
Area Description: IT Monitoring Area 01
Group Description: Monitoring Database
Action Type: Transaction
Action: DBACOCKPIT
Save your entries.
On the Assigning User Task tab, choose the user task group to which you want to assign tasks.
In the User Task column, assign one or more tasks to this group.
Example
Area Description: IT Monitoring Area 01
Group Description: Monitoring Database
Task1: Check the Database Alert Section
Task2: Check the Database Volume
Save your entries.
Note
On the URL Table tab, you can define extended URLs.
By default, the definition of a URL is limited to a length of 120 characters. If you want to start a longer URL, you can define it by 4 parts each having 120 characters. In that case, you enter the URL name you defined on the URL Table tab in the Defining User Tasks Groups tab.
Note
If you want to rename the Customer Task Area entry in the navigation area, choose the Name Customer Area tab.
In the navigation area, choose Customer Task Area or the name you have defined.
Choose the relevant task area and then the task group.
On the Task List tab, proceed as follows:
Change the task frequency, which has the standard value not active.
Assign a role or responsible person to the task.
On the Company Specific Task Description tab, enter a description of the user-specific task activity.
Save your entries.
You can copy user-specific tasks to other systems in your solution. For more information, see Copying Customizing.