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Function documentationWhat-If Scenario Details

 

You can display or edit a what-if scenario from the selected portfolio review. You navigate to this view by choosing an existing scenario from the review details screen. For more information, see Usage of What-If Scenarios.

Features

Overview

Here you can display and update general information about the what-if scenario, such as name, ID, description and so on.

Depending on your Customizing settings, the ID is generated using the SAP number assignment functionality or a customer-defined processing logic, or a character key (Universal Unique Identifier) is generated on saving. The generated ID can be overwritten manually. For more information, see Customizing for SAP Portfolio and Project Management under Start of the navigation path Portfolio Management Next navigation step Business Add-Ins and Customer Includes Next navigation step BAdI: Maintenance Services for Portfolio Management Objects End of the navigation path.

You can create your own fields to display additional information by choosing Start of the navigation path Portfolio Management Next navigation step Global Customizing Next navigation step Global Field Settings Next navigation step Define Custom Field Configuration End of the navigation path in Customizing for SAP Portfolio and Project Management, and assign the fields to the Additional Information subview in the Customizing activity Assign Fields to Views/Subviews. Only if you assign customer-specific fields to the Additional Information subview, it is displayed under Overview.

You determine which fields are visible and make settings for mandatory properties in Customizing for ABAP field configuration on the UI for the what-if scenario API.

For more information about API UI Properties, see Customizing for SAP Portfolio and Project Management under Start of the navigation path Global Customizing Next navigation step Global Field Settings Next navigation step Check SAP Field Configuration End of the navigation path.

Items

You can display the items the system copied over from the review to the what-if scenario. You can include or exclude the items from the scenario. For more information about items, see Item Management.

You can also display several charts and tables related to simulated or original items in a scenario. The charts and tables offer different views of the same list of items.

To open the analytics for an original or simulated item of a scenario, select the corresponding item. Choose the Reporting Cockpit pushbutton and choose either the original or the simulated items view. For more information, see Reporting Cockpit.

When you create a what-if scenario from a review, the system creates versions for all items in this review. For more information, see Version Details.

Scoreboard

For more information, see Scoreboard.

Notes

You can display a log of existing notes or add your own notes. For more information, see Notes.

Miscellaneous

You can display the authorizations of the users and roles that are assigned to the scenario. For more information, see Authorizations in Portfolio Management.

Optional Settings

Each of the categories mentioned above have corresponding visible and expanded properties so that the J2EE administrator can configure the default settings in the Floor Plan Manager.