Creating a Location 

The following applies to time- and location-dependent courses. (See also: Infotype Delivery Method (5007)).

Use

In this step, you create course locations.

When you create a course, you can relate it with the location where the course is to be held. You can also assign location-dependent resources such as rooms to locations. You make this assignment in the steps Creating a Room and Creating Other Resources.

You store the following data for locations:

·         Address

·         Site-dependent additional information (currency, language, and calendar with details of location-specific public holidays).

Prerequisites

It is not mandatory to create locations. If you only plan to use one location for all your courses, you can deactivate the location switch in Customizing under Training and Event Management ® SAP Learning Solution ® Training Management ® Course Preparation ®Location ® Use of Locations.

Procedure

On the SAP Easy Access screen, in the SAP Menu choose Human Resources ® SAP Learning Solution ® Settings ® Current Settings ®Location. The Location: Initial Screen appears.

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       1.      On the initial screen, enter the validity period of the new location.

       2.      Choose . The data screen Create Location appears.

       3.      Enter an abbreviation and a long text for the location.

       4.      Enter site-dependent additional information data for the location as required:

¡        Enter the calendar ID valid for the location.

¡        Enter the currency in which course costs are to be settled.

¡        Enter the language in which courses are usually held at the location.

¡        Enter address data for the location as required:

¡        Enter an address supplement (for example, box number or c/o)

¡        Enter a house number and street

¡        A postal code and city or town.

¡        Enter a country key (for example, DE for Germany).

¡        Enter a regional code (for example, 08 for Baden-Württemberg).

Enter the country key first and then use the possible entries help to select a regional code.

Specification of the distance in kilometers is not relevant at this point, so no entry is required here.

¡        Enter the telephone number of the location, where relevant.

¡        Enter the fax number of the location, where relevant.

       5.      Choose .

Result

You have created a course location.

Once you have created your first location you can use this as a template for any further locations you want to create. To do so, you enter the ID or name of the object you want to use as a template in the field course location in the Copy from box. The data of the existing object is proposed on the data screen. You can overwrite data as required for your new object.

The settings made in Customizing under Training and Event Management ® SAP Learning Solution ® Training Management ® Basic Settings ®Dialog Control ® Current Settings ®Maintain Actions affect the data maintenance for locations. In this step, you specify what infotypes can be maintained for locations. You can also specify under Maintain Actions that course locations may be structured in a hierarchy. The standard system does not provide the relationship belongs to which would enable you to set up such a hierarchical structure.