Maintaining and Activating a Guided Procedure

To compose a guided procedure, you can use various types of steps and predefined content. When designing the guided procedure, use the Overview of GPA Step Types and Content Types.

Prerequisites

You have created a guided procedure and opened the Maintain Guided Procedure screen. For more information, see Specifying the Application Area of a Guided Procedure.
Optional: To add an automatic activity, you have created a class to implement is. For more information, see Implementing an Automatic Activity.
Optional: To integrate a custom view in a step, you have created a custom Web Dynpro screen component to implement the interface WD_IF_SISE_STEP. For more information, see Creating Custom Web Dynpro Screen Components.

Procedure

To create a guided procedure, insert at least one step.
Enter a title and description. The title is displayed as the name of the tab page of the guided procedure. The description is displayed as a tooltip when the user positions the mouse on the tab.
Select the type and content of the step.

For more information, see Overview of GPA Step Types and Content Types
To add help text to a step, do the following:
1. Select the step.
2. Under Step Help Text, choose the New pushbutton.
  A dialog box appears.
3. Enter data as required.
4. Add meaningful information. For more information, see Editing Help Texts For Custom Guided Procedures.
5. Save your entries.
To add an activity to a step, you have the following options:
- To add an activity to a manual step, do the following:
  1. Under Activities, choose the New pushbutton.
    
    A dialog box appears.
  2. In the Activity Name field, enter the name to be displayed in the activity list.
  3. You have the following options:
    
    To add a manual activity, specify the UI:
    
    In the Type field, select Simple and choose New.
    A dialog box appears.
    
    Specify the target system and the URL type of the GUI in which the manual activity is to be performed.
    
    To provide a tooltip for the link, enter a description for the URL.
    
    Example
    Call transaction SU01.
    
    End of the example.
    
    To specify a static URL (http://help.sap.com, for example), enter the URL in the Path field.
    Enter the parameter according to the URL or transaction to be called.
    
    Example
    To call transaction SU01, you specify the following parameter and value to be appended to the function call:
    
    Key = -transaction
    Value = SU01
    
    End of the example.
    
    Choose the Check pushbutton.
    A link with the description of the URL is displayed.
    
    To verify that the URL can be accessed, choose the link.
    To confirm, choose OK.
    
    To call a custom-developed class, for example to redirect the user to another link, do the following:
    
    In the Type field, select Expert and choose New.
    Specify the class you have created.
    
    To confirm, choose OK.
    
    For more information, see Implementing Custom Manual Activities.
- To add a custom automatic activity to an automatic step, do the following:
  1. Select the step.
  2. Under Activities, choose the New pushbutton.
    
    A dialog box appears.
  3. In the Activity Name field, enter the name to be displayed in the activity list.
  4. Specify the name of the class implementing your automatic activity.
    For more information, see Implementing Custom Automatic Activities.
- To mix manual or automatic activities with activities to be performed in a custom Web Dynpro screen component or in an existing step, do the following:
  1. Select the step and specify the type and content (type Mixed and content Custom & Auto, for example).
  2. Under Custom UI Details, specify the Web Dynpro screen component you have created, or the step you want to reuse:
    
    Select the component.
    Select the view. By default, the main view (V_MAIN) is selected.
    Enter a description. In the guided procedure step, the description is displayed as the name of the frame in which the custom UI component is displayed.
    Under Activities, choose New.
    
    For more information, see Creating Custom Web Dynpro Screen Components.
- To reuse an existing step, or integrate a custom Web Dynpro screen component, do the following:
  1. Select the step.
  2. In the Type field, select Custom.
  3. Under Custom UI Details, specify the Web Dynpro screen component you have created, or the step you want to reuse.
  For more information, see Creating Custom Web Dynpro Screen Components.
Under Activity Help Text, add a help text. For more information, see Editing Help Texts For Custom Guided Procedures.

When an activity help text is created, a Display link is displayed in the Documentation column of the activity list of the step.
Optional: To display a preview of the step and check whether the activity can be performed correctly, choose the Preview pushbutton.

Note
You can only preview a step when you have assigned at least one activity to each step of the guided procedure.

End of the note.
To test the guided procedure in the system in which the guided procedure was created, choose the Preview pushbutton.
To test the guided procedure in a different system, choose Activate.
After activation, you cannot edit the guided procedure until the transport request that contains the guided procedure is released.

To activate a guided procedure which reuses an existing one, the transport request containing the reused guided procedure must be released.

For more information about transporting the guided procedure into the production system, see Releasing a Guided Procedure and Editing Attributes.