Creating Links to Source of Term (SAP Library - Terminology and Glossary in SAPterm (BC-DOC-TER))

Creating Links to Source of Term

Use

When creating a term in SAPterm, you can add a link to existing documentation in order to provide extra information on the term. At present it is possible to create a link from a term to the following object types:

Documentation object type	Class name in SAPterm
Implementation Guide documentation	BOOK for objects with technical names beginning with BOOK CHAP for objects with technical names beginning with CHAP SIMG for objects with technical names beginning with SIMG
Data element documentation	DE
Dialog texts	DT
Data element supplement documentation	DZ
Function module documentation	FU
Knowledge Warehouse documentation	KENO
Message documentation	NA
Release notes	RELN
General texts	GT

Note

Contact the SAPterm administrator if you need to create a link to documentation belonging to a non-allowed object type. The administrator can allow additional object types in SAPterm when necessary.

Prerequisites

The term exists in the SAP System or in the Knowledge Warehouse documentation.

You need to know the technical name and the object type of the documentation to which you wish to create a link.

Note

If you are creating a link to Knowledge Warehouse documentation, you can also search for the information object to which you wish to create a link.

Such links can only be created in entry maintenance.

Procedure

Proceed as described in Create Term, and enter data as described in Maintenance Dialog: Maintain Entry.

On the Maintain Entry screen, choose Link to source.

The screen Maintain Links to Term Source Information appears.

Enter the Class of the documentation object. See the table above for the available documentation object types and their classes. You can use F4 help in the Class field to help you.

Enter the document name in the Document field.

Note

To maintain a link to an individual information object in the Knowledge Warehouse, use the F4 help on the Document field to search for the information object to which you wish to create a link.

The dialog box Info category appears. To create a link to an individual information object, select Topic and choose Copy.

The Find info object dialog box appears. Enter as much information as possible as selection criteria in order to restrict the search and choose Execute. Entering the technical name of an information object is the most efficient way of locating it.

The results of your search are displayed in the dialog box Choose info object. Select the information object you require and choose Copy info object.

The document name of the information object is now inserted in the Document field.

Example

You wish to create a link to a piece of documentation from the Implementation Guide. The technical name of this documentation is CHAPSIMG_EXAMPLE. To create a link to this documentation object, you need to enter CHAP in the Class field, and enter SIMG_EXAMPLE in the Document field.

To test that the correct documentation is displayed for this term, choose Display.

Save your entries.

Result

The link to the source of the term is created in the terminology database.