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 Copy Business Scenarios and Processes into Solutions

Use

In the Solution Directory, you can copy data from the following sources to your solution:

A project

Business Process Repository (BPR)

The Business Process Repository is a structured set of all preconfigured structure elements for business scenarios and processes that you can reuse.

Existing solutions

Prerequisites

You have:

Created a solution

Created a project to copy from a project in the Project Administration .

Created other solutions with business process scenarios to copy business scenarios, business processes, and steps of another solution from the Solution Directory.

Assigned Solution Directory roles to users. For more information, see the SAP Solution Manager Security Guide.

Procedure

Call your solution in the solution directory (transaction SOLMAN_DIRECTORY):

SAP Solution Manager Administration work center→ SolutionsGotoSolution Settings

The solution header data contains:

The navigation role

The structure level

The status of the change request if you are working with Change Request Management (see Creating a Change Transaction )

The Check-Out Status for checked-out business processes or business steps in the solution attributes of a maintenance project (see Assigning Solution Attributes ).

Double-click Business Scenarios .

Choose the Structure tab

Proceed as follows:

Specify whether you want to copy business processes from the Business Process Repository from a Project or another Solution Directory solution into the possible entries help for the field Selection Help . If you want to copy objects from the BPR, select the option Business Process Repository Extended Search to call and extended search function with which you can search the BPR for implementation content.

Proceed as follows, depending on your selection:

From the Business Process Repository

Choose a business scenario in the input help for the Scenario Name column.

Confirm the following dialog box.

The system copies the business scenario and its business processes/process steps.

From the Extended Business Process Repository Search

The system opens the extended search in a new window. To search in BPR, switch to this window. For more information, see Extended Business Process Repository Search .

From a project

Choose a business scenario in the input help for the Scenario Name column.

Choose Copy Options .

Flag what you want to copy, and how you want to handle the documents in the dialog box.

Confirm.

The Logical Component Assignment dialog box may appear.

Check the assignment of the logical components to the systems.

If it meets your requirements, confirm. Otherwise, assign the logical components correctly first. For more information, see Defining Leading System Role and Adding, Changing or Deleting Other System Roles .

The system copies the business scenario and its business processes/steps.

From another solution in the Solution Directory

Choose a business scenario in the input help for the Scenario Name column.

Choose Copy Options .

Flag what you want to copy, and how you want to handle the documents in the dialog box.

Confirm.

The Logical Component Assignment dialog box appears.

Check the assignment of the logical components to the systems.

If it meets your requirements, confirm. Otherwise, assign the logical components correctly first. For more information, see Defining Leading System Role and Adding, Changing or Deleting Other System Roles .

The system copies the business scenario and its business processes/steps.

Choose the business scenario status.

To be able to monitor your business scenario and business processes in the Business Process Monitoring session, you must set the Status to Production . For more information, see Business Process and Interface Monitoring .

Save your entries.

For more information on the extent to which other data on the tab pages can be copied, see Solution Directory Copy Scenarios for Business Processes .

Result

You have defined business scenarios. You can define other attributes for the business scenarios in the other tabs.