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 Check Fixed Space Availability

Use

Your customers and sales employees can use this Internet application component (IAC) in Advertising Management (IS-M/AM) to check the way in which fixed spaces have been booked.

Customers or sales employees can find out whether a fixed space is still free for a date in a booking unit and whether it can therefore be sold or purchased.

Type of Internet Application Component

Business-to-Business (for sales agents or agencies)

Employee Self Service (for your sales employees)

Use of the Check Fixed Space Availability Internet application component offers you and your customers a number of business benefits:

Benefits to customers:

  • Your customers can check whether there are still free spaces available at any stage.

  • Your customers no longer need to contact your employees to obtain information about the positioning situation.

Benefits to publishers:

  • 24-hour worldwide availability allows you to achieve higher sales volumes.

  • Employees who were previously responsible for providing positioning information can now perform other duties, since your customers can obtain the information required directly.

  • Your sales employees know which fixed spaces are still available and are therefore in a position to make more specific offers. Customers are not offered fixed spaces that have already been booked.

Prerequisites

Standard Default Settings

You must make settings for the IAC in the Advertising Management (IS-M/AM) Customizing settings under Start of the navigation path Sales Next navigation step Order Next navigation step Internet Application Components (IACs) Next navigation step Fixed Space Availability End of the navigation path .

Access

You access the IAC using the URL http://…/sap/bc/gui/sap/its/media/jhb4_iac?rjhwww_jhb4-jwwwkey=<key>&~okcode=strt& .

<key> is the key you defined in Customizing here.

Features

Comparison withSAPTransaction

The IAC corresponds to the standard SAP transaction Fixed Space Planning . However, it is a highly simplified version.

The standard SAP transaction and the IAC are distinguished as follows:

  • Before using the IAC, you must make Customizing settings to control the combinations of booking units and fixed spaces that can be displayed.

  • The system displays the result of the check in a list in the IAC and not in an interactive tree structure.

  • The system does not display orders that book fixed spaces in the IAC. The system only displays whether spaces are still available.

Possible Adjustments

You can enrich the data that is displayed for the Internet Application Component. You can adjust templates if fields already exist in the standard transaction.

Every change made to the SAP development objects used for this Internet Application Component constitutes a modification.

You should not therefore make any changes to development objects in the standard system under any circumstances. Copy the templates into the customer name space instead.

Data Output via the Internet Transaction Server

Data is displayed using the Internet Transaction Server. The data determined is prepared using HTML forms (templates) and displayed on the Internet in HTML format. The following forms are used:

Form

Meaning

SAPMJHB4_IAC_100.HTML

Initial screen

Select booking unit, period and positioning instruction

SAPMJHB4_IAC_200.HTML

Results list

Display selected fixed spaces on the initial screen

JHB4_IAC_DE.HTRC

German texts

JHB4_IAC_EN.HTRC

English texts

The numbers in the form names correspond to the SAP screen numbers.

Service Name

The service name of this IAC is JHB4_IAC.

SAPDevelopment Objects

Data exchange over the Internet is performed using transactions and function modules. The following development objects are required for the Check Fixed Space Availability Internet application component:

Transaction

JHB4_IAC

Module pool

SAPMJHB4_IAC

Function modules

ISP _FPLZ_DISPO_SELECT

ISP _FPLZ_DISPO_CREATE