Guided Procedures

New and Enhanced Features in SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.1 EHP1

Feature	Type of Change	Description
Process Instance Title Customizing	New	As of this release, you can customize the process instance title in the design time. To do so, you define a pattern for the runtime title using process context parameters. Thus, the latest dynamic process instance title appears in the runtime worklist and you can easily discern process instances by their title. More information: Customizing a Process Instance Title
Development Objects Search in the Gallery	New	In GP design time, it is now possible to search for development objects in the gallery by providing a title or description as search criteria. Filters, searching and sorting tools are also available in all callable object selection lists. More information: Managing Folders and Objects in the Gallery
Form Instances Naming and Submission	Enhanced	The GP framework now allows you to specify a form instance name in the following ways: In the GP design time, you can now specify a form name when using impersonalized form objects. Before you instantiate the form, you can also specify the number of form submissions allowed. More information: Instantiating and Testing Guided Procedure Forms Using the Forms API, you can use a new method to specify the form's instance name and number of allowed submissions. More information: Using the Forms API Creating Form Instances Thus, different form instances of the same impersonalized form object can have different technical names and can be easily discerned from each other.
BMF Administration	Changed	Three of the configuration properties for composite forms are now set as default in the Config Tool. As of the current release, you do not have to manually configure the parameters for switching on the BMF, switching for the queue processor and for enabling the connection of GP to the mail server. More information: Configuring Composite Form Parameters
Process Instance Deletion	New	In the Administration workset, you are now able to delete running, completed, terminated or erroneous process instances that you no longer need. More information: Managing Process Instances
Mail Template Creation	Enhanced	In the Administration workset, when setting up mail templates, you are able to define a pattern for the mail template subject using process context parameters. The latest mail template subject changes dynamically in accordance with the process context parameters. More information: Setting Up Mail Templates In addition, GP now provides you with enhanced replacement functionality when you want to personalize the mails that are sent by GP. The replacement values of context parameters of the callable object referred to from the mail template are now changed. Now, in case the callable object has a parameter with a hyphen (`-`) in its technical name, the hyphen is referenced in the mail template as `&#45`. If a callable object has a parameter with a period (`.`) in its technical name, the period is referenced as `&#46`. More information: Replacements Setting Up Mail Templates
Runtime Views Customizing	Enhanced	In the process design time, you can now define the visibility of each panel in the runtime view. You can hide the following panels in the runtime: Contextual Navigation Panel Activity Status Bar Phase Navigator Title Bar More information: Defining Runtime Views
UWL and GP Workflow Integration	Enhanced	You can now check the status of each GP task assigned to you and listed in the UWL. Furthermore, you can forward a task in your Universal Worklist to one or more people for completion. More information: Configuring Guided Procedures with the Universal Worklist
Design Time Workset	Enhanced	As of the current release, the following additional features are available in the GP design time: Visibility of parameter mappings in of composite forms in the Logical Criteria tab page in read-only mode Visibility of the Defined Timeout time period of composite forms in the Configuration tab page in read-only mode More information: Building and Using a Form Context Configuring Post-Processing Services New tab page in the process design time You Can. Here you can easily attach ad hoc items and info callable objects to a process. More information: Ad Hoc Items Info Callable Objects
Public GP API for Runtime Activities	New	As of the current release, you can manage runtime activities with the GP API. Once you instantiate a GP process, you can access and modify it at runtime, adding flexibility and complexity to the workflow. With the API, you can retrieve the input and output context of the process and its levels. You can also assign or change dynamically a different user to a specific process role or task. More information: Managing Runtime Activities Using the GP API
Mail Adapters Configuration	Enhanced	In the Administration workset, you can now configure different communication settings of a single mail adapter. Thus, you can use more than one communication connection setting at the same time for different composite forms. You can also set a communication setting as default. In the form object design time, you can choose which of the configured communication settings (different from the default) you want to use for the current form instance. More information: Configuring Adapters Exposing Composite Forms as Callable Objects Configuring Form Use and Data Processing Options
GP Content Customizing and Updating (Design Time and Runtime)	Enhanced	In the GP design time, you can customize GP content provided by SAP or SAP partners. Once you deploy such content on your system, you can use it as it is or create your own customized object versions out of it. The new objects are stored in a separate folder in the gallery so that the changes you make do not affect the original objects. You can also use the Update button and navigation links to directly lead you to the customized version of the SAP content. If there is no customized version of the original content, GP notifies you on each process level. More information: Customizing and Updating SAP Content You can also compare and restore previous versions of the objects, as well as restore the original SAP content. More information: Comparing and Restoring Object Versions In the GP runtime, you can now instantiate the original SAP content, even if you already have a customized version of it. Thus, you can check step-by-step how the original SAP process is executed. More information: Starting (Initiating) a New Process
GP Content Management in the Developer Studio	Enhanced	As of the current release, you can use the new Developer Studio wizard for importing and updating GP content. You can do so from a local .sda file or from a running instance from another system. You can also choose whether to automatically release the development objects upon deployment. In addition, `.xlf` translation files are not deleted when GP content is imported and updated. More information: Managing GP Content Using the Developer Studio
Service Groups Creation and Management	New	As of the current release, Web services can be grouped into service groups, which enable you to mass configure and group services that are invoked on one and the same provider system. In GP, you can create service groups in one of the following ways: In the Administration workset, you create a service group from scratch and decide whether or how to classify it. As a GP Administrator, you can create, edit or delete service groups More information: Managing Service Groups In the GP design time, when exposing a Web service as a callable object. In this case, the GP framework obtains the configuration settings and service references of the Web service, so the service group you create contains the service interface definition. More information: Exposing Web Services as Callable Objects

Enhancements in Documentation in SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.1 EHP1

Change	More information
Added description of predefined callable objects, used for the initiation of a process template.	Predefined Callable Objects
Added information about service groups and tutorial changed accordingly.	Importing a Web Service in Guided Procedures
Added information about which callable objects can be tested in the GP runtime.	Testing Callable Objects
Added information about block types and targets of results states.	Defining Block Flow