Trip Schema PL for Travel Requests and Travel Plans 

Use

The trip schema PL is used in Travel Management in two places: in the SAP system as a technical trip schema for travel requests and travel plans, and in the Web Dynpro interface to edit the field control for travel requests and travel plans.

Features

Technical Trip Schema in SAP System

When a travel request (in the Travel Manager) and a travel plan (in the Travel Manager and Planning Manager) is saved, for technical reasons the associated travel expense report is generated automatically, into which the system integrates the general data and any advances from the travel request or travel plan. This travel expense report has the status Request or Request Approved.

To ensure a correct process flow when this travel expense report is created automatically, SAP supplies the technical trip schema PL. The system selects this trip schema as a kind of placeholder for the actual trip schema, which is still unknown at this point.

The technical trip schema PL stands for a multiday trip without domestic/international differentiation and with internal number assignment.

When users access Travel Expenses later to enter their trip data, they are asked to enter the "true" trip schema as usual (such as Domestic Trip). Users do not have to deal with the technical trip schema PL.

Trip Schema PL in the Web Dynpro Interface

In the Web Dynpro interface, the field control for the travel request is configured by means of trip schema PL. It also defines which additional entries are provided on the Complete Booking Information screen in Travel Planning, such as advances or account assignments.

Activities

If you use travel requests in the Travel Manager or use the transactions of Travel Planning, you need to copy trip schema PL from client 000 to your client because the settings for trip schemas are client-dependent.

Then check the default values in trip schema PL and change them if necessary. Enter only default values that exist in the corresponding tables in Customizing for Travel Management. You check and change the default values for trip schema PL in the IMG (Implementation Guide) for Travel Management under Travel Expenses → Dialog and Travel Expenses Control → Dialog Control → Define Schema and Individual Field Control.