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 Activate Industries for Enterprise Services

Industry Solutions are an integral part of Business Function Sets that are activated by means of the SAP Switch Framework. For this purpose, the Industry Solutions were structured as business function sets consisting of one or more business functions. You can activate a Business Function Set or selected business functions according to your requirements.

Enterprise Services support industry solutions via a Business Context called Industry Classification. The Business Context is a new approach that can be used to tailor service interfaces by classifying elements of the business information interfaces. A message type of an SAP service interface comprises both the elements used across all industries, and the elements relevant for certain industries only. Which elements are used in specific industries only, and in which industries, is indicated using the elements’ Business Context: SAP assigns an industry classification to these elements (for instance Oil&Gas, Pharmaceuticals, etc.).

This industry classification ensures that industry-specific elements are only visible in application systems in which the industry solution concerned is active (in the service WSDLs retrieved from the application systems, to be precise). To use the industry business context in an application system, activating corresponding Business Functions may not be sufficient. The industry has to be activated in addition in the application system using the following IMG activity:

SAP Customizing Implementation Guide-> Cross-Application Components ->Processes and Tools for Enterprise Applications -> Enterprise Services -> General Settings for Enterprise Services ->  Activate Industries for Enterprise Services.

In the SAP ERP enhancement packages, SAP delivers global data types (GDTs) that can contain industry-specific fields. The industry classification assigned to these fields determines that the fields are only displayed in systems of the respective industries.

If you want to use Enterprise Services for industries, you must activate the corresponding industry in Customizing for Cross Application Components .

To do so, log on to the system in English and go to the SV_INDUSTRY view by calling transaction SM30. By activating an industry view, you cause the system to display industry-specific fields at runtime.You must activate the industry view for each system and each client.