Setting Dominant/Subordinate Relationships (SAP Library

Setting Dominant/Subordinate Relationships

Use

The Business Processes substructure contains processes, which appear more than once in different scenarios. You can edit associated items (for example, questions, CI templates ,and transactions) for each process in the substructure in various ways. You can establish a hierarchy between processes in the structure. This allows you to maintain consistency when editing different processes and helps to reduce your workload. The associated items for the dominant process are displayed for all subordinate processes. You can edit all associated items for subordinate processes centrally, from the dominant process. You can, however, enter comments for individual subordinate processes.

Procedure

To create a dominant/subordinate relationship for a structure item:

Select a process in scope () that you want to define as dominant.
Select Make dominant in the context menu (right mouse click).
On the upper right screen area, a list appears of all occurrences of this business process that you have set in scope in the Business Processes substructure.
Select the processes you want to set as subordinate. To define all processes as subordinate click the title row.
Select OK.
When you create a dominant/subordinate relationship, a D ( dominant) or S ( subordinate) appears in the SAP Reference Structure below the process level symbol.

You can only set dominant/subordinate relationships for processes you have set in scope. For this reason, you should create these relationships after you have set your project scope but before you edit associated items. If you edit associated items for processes and then make these processes subordinate, the associated items for the dominant process are displayed for all the subordinate processes. When you clear the dominant relationship, you can view the original associated items.

To display the dominant business process for a subordinate process:

Select a business process marked as subordinate.
Select View dominant in the context menu (right mouse click).
This takes you to the dominant business process in the SAP Reference Structure.

To display the subordinate processes for a dominant process:

Select a business process marked as dominant.
Select View subordinate in the context menu (right mouse click). This takes you to the subordinate business process.

To clear the dominant/subordinate relationship:

Select a business process marked as dominant.
Select Clear dom/sub in the context menu (right mouse click).
When you clear the relationship for a dominant business process, the relationship is also cleared for all processes subordinate to this business process.