Features

The solution administration offers the following functions, related to the following areas:

Furthermore, you can trigger an update of the search index and a calculation of derived attributes.

A selected solution with its branches is displayed in the table view. All details of this solution are displayed in the tabs below. Depending on the selected solution and branch, the following tabs are available:

Tab Properties

This tab displays the basic information of a solution: name, technical name, date and time of creation, created by, date and time of change, changed by.

Tab System Landscape

This tab displays the main administrative information with the logical component groups that are assigned to the solution. With the radio buttons All and In Scope you can toggle the view of the logical components groups. With the option All, you can display all logical components groups that exist in the SAP Solution Manager. You can mark the logical component group that you want to use for the selected solution with the indicator Scope.

With the option In Scope, only the logical components groups are displayed that are assigned to the selected solution.

Tab Change Control Landscapes

This tab displays the change control landscapes that are a subset of the whole system landscape. These change control landscape are used for the setting of Change Request Management. You can create a new change control landscape via the context menu in the table of change control landscapes. Choose New and enter a name and a technical name for the new change control landscape. From the list of all logical components groups that belong to the system landscape, you can select the logical components groups that you want to assign to the change control landscape. With the radio buttons All and In Scope you can toggle the view of the logical components groups. With the option All, you can display all logical components groups that exist in the system landscape. You can mark the logical component that you want to use for the selected change control landscape with the indicator Scope.

With the option In Scope, only the logical components groups are displayed that are assigned to the selected change control landscape.

Tab Document Types

This tab displays the documents types that are assigned to the solution. You need document types if you want to use documents in the Knowledge Warehouse. You can create only documents with the document types that are listed here.

With the radio buttons All and In Scope you can toggle the view of the document types. With the option All, you can display all document types that are available. You can mark the document types that you want to use for the selected solution with the indicator Scope.

With the option In Scope, only the document types are displayed that are assigned to the selected solution.

If you need to create further document types for your solution, you open the document type administration via the link Open Document Type Administration. In the Document Type Administration, you can create and maintain all document types.

Tab SAP Best Practices Packages

This tab displays the imported SAP Best Practices Packages with its details. You can import SAP Best Practices Packages via the link Import SAP Best Practices Packages. The systems opens a new windows in which you can select the target branch and the SAP Best Practices Packages for import.

Library Generation Cockpit

You can open the Library Generation Cockpit via the link Open Library Generation Cockpit.

Maintaining Branches

Branches are part of every solution and are located as subnodes below a solution. We recommend to use a production branch for all activities concerning production, a maintenance branch for maintenance activities and a development branch for development activities. Maintenance and development branch are independent versions for changes of the solution. The production branch is the productive version of the Solution Documentation, where all productive content is stored. If you need to enhance or to change the Solution Documentation, you have to use create a new branch as a new version of the Solution Documentation.

The properties of the branches are stored in two tabs:

Tab Properties

This tab contains the basic information of a branch, like name, technical name, and last change. As a production branch is the upper node in the structure of branches, no information about the parent branch is available. A maintenance branch is the inactive version of the production branch. The Change Control Management integration provides a close integration between Solution Documentation and Change Request Management. When the Change Management integration is enabled, you have to use always Change Documents for every change in the Solution Documentation content. If the Change Management Integration is disabled, you can change the Solution Documentation without control by change documents. You can edit the branch settings with the button Edit Branch Settings.

Tab System Landscape

Every branch has a System Landscape tab with the same logical component groups like in the solution itself. However, additionally you have to select a logical component within the logical component groups. The principle behind this feature is, that each branch addresses a specific landscape. The number of branches corresponds with the number of landscapes.

Purpose of Development Branch

The development branch represents an independent version context where you can realize long term changes which are independent from short term changes in the maintenance branch.

Navigating from Solution Administration to Solution Documentation

After finishing the setup of a solution in solution administration, you navigate to the Solution Documentation content of a selected branch via the link Open Solution Documentation. The system opens a new window and displays the Solution Documentation content in the corresponding version.