Generating a Project from a Roadmap

You can transfer a standard Roadmap structure to a project, to accelerate building up your work breakdown structure in project management.

You can also save the generated project as a project template for future projects.

Prerequisites

You are familiar with SAP Solution Manager. See http://help.sap.com/solutionmanager72.
You are familiar with SAP Portfolio and Project Management. See http://help.sap.com/ppm.
In SAP Solution Manager Configuration (transaction SOLMAN_SETUP), you have completed the setup of projects, as described under Setting Up Project Management.

Activities

Call transaction RMMAIN.
In the menu, choose Roadmap Other Project .
The dialog box Select Projects with Roadmap Assignment appears.
Select a roadmap.
Display the roadmap structure by choosing any linked text.
To create a project from a subset of the roadmap, you can filter the roadmap and create a project based on the selection, for example, for a certain role.
Choose in the menu Roadmap Create PPM Project .
The initial screen of the program Create PPM project out of Solution Manager Roadmap structure appears. The fields Roadmap and Language are filled automatically.
Enter a new project number for your project, and choose a project type from the value help.
You can create either a project or a template.
The option Open project after creation is selected by default. It opens the project after the system has created it, so you can check the project and work on it immediately.
Choose Execute.
The project or template, which opens automatically, contains the structure of the selected roadmap.

The optional numbering of the roadmap structure elements is not transferred into the project.

If the structure node titles of the roadmap are longer then the project structure titles, they are truncated, and the roadmap structure titles are also inserted into the field description, on the basic data tab in the project.