The Screen Areas 
Use
You use the enterprise organization maintenance screen to create, display or change organizational structures.
The maintenance screen is divided into different areas, each of which covers particular functions:
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Note
The combination of search area and selection area is called the Object Manager .
To display individual areas more clearly, you can hide other areas of the screen.
To make the remaining areas of the screen larger, you can display/hide the Object Manager .
If you display large lists in the selection area , you can hide the search area . To do so, choose Result list large/small.
If you are processing large structures in the overview area, you can hide the detail area . To do so, click the pushbutton above the detail area .
Note
Each time you start the functions belonging to enterprise organization, the system automatically calls up the data that you last processed and uses the size settings from your last session for the screen areas.
Features
Search area
In the search area you select one or more organizational units that you want to display or change, for example:
HR organizational units
Cost centers
Inactive cost centers
Cost center groups
Profit centers
Inactive profit centers
Profit center groups
Company codes
Controlling areas
See also:
Searching for Organizational Units
Selection area
In the selection area , the organizational units you selected are displayed in a list.
You can add extra columns by choosing Column configuration. These additional columns can be for any of the data available as master data.
You can restrict the list using certain criteria by setting the filter . You can, for example, select all objects of an owner.
You can display or change an organizational unit in its assignment to the organizational structure, and the corresponding detailed information, by using the following options:
Choose the organizational units by double-clicking on them.
The system transfers the organizational unit to the central overview area and displays the master data in the detail area .
Use drag-and-drop to move the organizational unit to the overview area .
You can activate and delete inactive master data versions of cost centers or profit centers. You have the following options:
Select the objects in the selection list.
You can also select the objects in the structure tree of the overview area by selecting all of the corresponding rows.
Choose Activate .
A dialog box appears that contains a list of all inactive objects . The objects that you selected in the selection list or structure tree are already marked in this list.
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If you have not yet selected any objects, you can select in this dialog box all the inactive objects that you want to activate.
Choose Activate in the dialog box.
You can call up the assignment overview for a cost center or profit center. Do this by selecting the right mouse button on the corresponding object.
In the overview area the system displays the time frame in which each object is and to which HR organizational unit it is/was assigned to.
Overview area
The overview area displays the selected organizational unit (with all the objects assigned to it) as a tree structure, in the time frame set The processing functions are provided in a clear manner in a function box.
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You can also access the most important functions using the right mouse button.
You can:
Display/hide additional columns using the Column configuration
Print the structure
Set the time interval in which the structure (including the CO objects it contains) is to be processed.
Create new objects and assign them to existing objects.
Move the objects within the tree structure using drag-and-drop.
Select a new object.
Copy an HR organizational unit more than once
Reduce the length of time that a link between an object and the HR organizational unit exists.
Delete a link between an object and the HR organizational unit.
Go up a level in the overall hierarchy by using One level up.
You do not have to select the corresponding higher-level node to do so. The system automatically supplements it in the tree structure.
See also:
Assigning, Reassigning, or Moving Organizational Units
Terminating or Deleting HR Organizational Units or Assignments
Selecting Key Date and Preview Period
Detail area
In the detail area , you can display or process the master data for each object.
To display or process the master data for a particular object, choose the object by double-clicking on it in the tree structure.
Note
In the detail area, you can do the following for the selected object:
Change the validity period
Change the processing period, which corresponds to the preview period
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