App Implementation: Open Posting Periods

System Landscape Requirements

Before you start to implement the app, ensure that your system landscape has been set up to enable SAP Fiori. This also implies that the front-end components and back-end components for your app are already available in this system landscape:

SAP Fiori System Landscape Options	Setup of SAP Fiori System Landscape with SAP HANA Database Setup of SAP Fiori System Landscape with SAP HANA XS
Configuration of Front-End Server	Configuration of SAP Fiori Infrastructure
Back-End Components Delivered with (Product Version Stack)	SAP Simple Finance add-on 1.0 SPS04 for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA
Front-End Components Delivered with (Product Version Stack)	SAP Fiori for the SAP Simple Finance add-on 1.0 SPS04 for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA

Ensure that the front-end component of the app is in place on your front-end server. It is automatically installed with the UI-Add-On.

Front-End Server: Front-End Component of App (Software Component)

UIAPFI70

Required SAP Notes

For Open Posting Periods, the following SAP Notes must be available:

Back-End/Front-End Server	SAP Note Number	Description
Back-end server and Front-end server	2028974	Release note for Open Posting Periods

Implementation Tasks

The following sections list tasks that have to be performed to implement the Open Posting Periods app. The tables contain the app-specific data required for these tasks:

Front-End Server: Activate OData Services

Component	Technical Name
OData Service (Version Number)	`FIN_OPEN_CLOSE_PERIOD_SRV(1)`

Front-End Server: Activate UI5 Application

Component	Technical Name
UI5 Application	`FIN_OPENPERIODS`

For more information about how to activate the ICF service, see Front-End Server: Activate ICF Services of SAPUI5 Application (for transactional apps) or Activate ICF Service of BSP Application (fact sheets).

Front-End Server: Enable App for Access in SAP Fiori Launchpad

There are several steps to be performed to enable the app for access in the SAP Fiori launchpad. You require the listed data to perform these steps.

The SAP Fiori launchpad is the entry point to SAP Fiori apps. From a user perspective, it displays those SAP Fiori apps that have been assigned to the catalog designed for this user's role.

This presupposes that an administrator has made the necessary assignments in the launchpad designer to enable a user's access to the respective SAP Fiori apps in the SAP Fiori launchpad. For more information, see Setup of Catalogs, Groups, and Roles in the SAP Fiori Launchpad.

SAP delivers technical catalogs for groups of SAP Fiori apps as repositories to create your own catalogs in the launchpad designer. Along with these catalogs, more technical content is delivered for each SAP Fiori app. You can find the delivered technical content for each SAP Fiori app in the SAP Fiori apps reference library at https://www.sap.com/fiori-apps-library .

Component	Technical Name
Semantic Object	`PostingPeriod`
Business Role	`SAP_SFIN_BCR_GLACCOUNTANT`
Business Catalog	`SAP_SFIN_BC_GLACCOUNTANT`
Business Catalog Group	`SAP_SFIN_BCG_GLACCOUNTANT`
Technical Role	`SAP_SFIN_TCR_T`
Technical Catalog	`SAP_FIN_TC_T`
`LPD_CUST` Role	`UIAPFI70`
`LPD_CUST` Instance	`TRANSACTIONAL_FI`

Front-End and Back-End Server: Assign Role with OData Service Authorization to Users

To restrict access to OData services to specific users, you have to assign roles (including OData service authorization for the app) to your users. You have to make the assignment on the back-end and on the front-end server:

On the back-end server, a dedicated authorization role (PFCG role) for the OData service is delivered as an example. You can adjust this role according to your needs.
On the front-end server, you can assign the OData service authorization to a new or existing role, such as a business role that has been adjusted according to your needs.

OData Service (Version Number)	Back-End Server: Delivered Authorization Role (PFCG Role)	Front-End Server: Authorization Role
`FIN_OPEN_CLOSE_PERIOD_SRV(1)`	`SAP_FIN_OPENPOSTINGPERIODS`	`SAP_SFIN_BCR_GLACCOUNTANT`

Configuration Tasks

To enable Open Posting Periods, you must perform the following configuration tasks:

User role configuration:
- Front-end system (gateway system)
  1. Run transaction SU01, specify a user and click Edit.
  2. On the Roles tab, enter the following roles:
    
    SAP_SFIN_BCR_GLACCOUNTANT
  3. Click Save.
Back-end system (ECC system with business data)
If the gateway system and the back-end system are on the same system, follow these steps in the same system:
1. Run transaction PFCG, enter role SAP_FIN_OPENPOSTINGPERIODS and click Copy.
2. Enter a target role, for example, Z_SAP_FIN_OPENPOSTINGPERIODS, and click Copy All.
3. Click Edit.
4. On the Authorization tab, click Propose Profile Name.
5. Click Save.
6. Click Change Authorization Data.
7. Enter the controlling areas to which the user has access.
8. Click Save.
9. Enter values for other authorization objects to which the user has access.
10. Click Save and then Generate, and the status of authorization becomes “generated”.
11. Assign this role to the user by following the steps introduced in Front-end system (gateway system) in the back-end system.

More Information

For general information about the user management concept in a SAP Fiori environment, see Users in ABAP Front-End System and Users in ABAP Back-End System.