Maintaining Business Processes with Collective Processing (SAP Library

Maintaining Business Processes with Collective Processing

Use

You can use collective processing to change or display multiple business processes in one operation. To delete business processes with collective processing, see Deleting Business Processes.

To display business processes, use the ABAP list viewer grid control.

For more information on displaying and navigating, go to ABAP List Viewer (ALV): Grid Control.

Procedure

To change business processes with collective processing, go to the Activity-Based Costing initial screen and choose Master data ® Business process ® Collective processing ® Change.

To display business processes with collective processing, go to the Activity-Based Costing initial screen and choose Master data ® Business process ® Collective processing ® Display, or Information system ® Reports for Activity-Based Costing ® Master Data Indexes ® Master Data for Business Processes.

You can select business processes based on the following criteria:

Individual business process or business process interval

Business process groups

All business processes in a controlling area

Selection variant (see: Selection variant)

In the selection variant you save the search criteria for finding business processes. The selection variant locates all business processes possessing identical entries in one or more master data fields.

To create new selection variants, choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text (Create selection variant).

In the list of business process fields, enter the criteria according to which you want the R/3 System to select business processes. For example, you can define a selection based on a common company code.
Save your entries.
Enter a name and a description for your variant.
Save your entries.

To change existing selection variants, choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text (Change selection variant).

To display existing selection variants, choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text (Display selection variant).

Select one of the criteria and enter the corresponding selection parameters.

Enter a time frame in which the selected business processes are valid.

Business processes that you want to change must exist in the selected time frame. The validity period of the business processes must lie entirely within the time frame.

Business processes that you want to display must exist in the selected time frame. However, the validity period of the business processes only need to overlap in whole or in part with the time frame.

To change business processes, enter a list variant or choose Possible entries to select an existing list variant.

Use the list variant to determine how the R/3 System shows the list of selected business processes.

The standard R/3 System offers standard list variants that differ in the number of master data fields offered for maintenance. Moreover, you can define custom list variants that select all standard master data fields for maintenance. To create custom list variants, choose:

Environment ® Maintain list variant, or

In the Implementation Guide (IMG) for the Activity-Based Costing component (CO-OM-ABC), choose Master Data ® Business Process ® Defining List Variants for Collective Processing of Business Processes.

To display business processes, you do not need a list variant.

Choose Execute.

The SAP System displays a list of all selected business processes. The following functions are available:

Master data

You can display the relevant master data by selecting a row and choosing path Goto ® Master data.

Create group

Choose Generate group to create a master data group. Select the master data that you want to include in a group and then name the group.

You can select the number of rows that you want (also see Select lines). If you do not select any lines and then choose Generate group, the system will create a group consisting of all master data displayed.

To change business processes, overwrite the values given in the entry-ready fields and save your entries.

Note

You can only change those master data fields that have the same value for the entire selected time frame. Otherwise, the fields do not appear as entry-ready.

To maintain fields not appearing in collective processing, choose Display ® Other list variant, or Previous list variant, or Next list variant.

To branch from list processing to the master data of individual business processes, select the business process and choose Goto ® Master data. You can then make changes to the master data and save the data records.

To branch from list processing to the master data index for business processes, choose Goto ® Business process master data index. The master data index uses the selection criteria you entered in the initial screen for collective processing.