Business event groups serve to classify business event types that share the same characteristics or deal with related subject matter such as Language Courses or Data Processing Courses.

A business event group can contain subordinate event groups, such as English Courses or Microsoft Word Courses, which typically contain multiple business event types. Thus, you can create a hierarchical structure of event groups.

The hierarchical structure, starting with event groups and working down, makes your business event catalog accessible and easy to navigate from the user's point of view, and easier to create from your point of view. The business event groups occupy the highest level of this hierarchy.

You could decide to start with the event group Data Processing Courses, for instance. From here, you would work your way down to the individual events and dates.

Business event groups can also be selected as subject areas in the search for business events in the Employee Self-Service Training Center.

Using business event groups to structure your event catalog improves system performance in the dynamic menus. To further improve performance, you can define a virtual business event group as the top node of your event hierarchy. You do so in Customizing for Training and Event Management under Basic Settings ® Dialog Control ® Technical Settings ® Dynamic Menus in the entry SEMIN LROOT.

• Long and short name
• Description of contents

The first two attributes are mandatory; all others are optional.

Business event groups together with event types, event dates, and the relationships that exist between them form a hierarchical structure. You generally maintain these relationships when you create a new object.

In the hierarchy, business event groups occupy the top level. You can make the hierarchy as deep as you want by combining multiple event groups into one higher level group.