Use

You can create force elements or structures by selecting and copying an existing force element and, if required, its lower-level structure as a template. Since the copies do not have to belong to the usage type of the template, you can copy between different structures. You can also use a copy procedure to enhance multiple structures at once. In Customizing, you define which assignments of the template are to be converted to which assignments of the copy.

Prerequisites

You are familiar with the creation of force elements and have made the following Customizing settings in addition to the Customizing settings required for creation:

You choose Personnel Management → Organizational Management → Hierarchy Framework to define which infotypes are to be included in or excluded from the copy. By default, all infotypes, with the exception of infotypes 1980, 1981, and 1982, are copied.

You choose Defense Forces & Public Security → Organizational Flexibility → Structures Workbench → Define Relationship Types/Groups and Object Subtypes to specify which object subtypes are to be available when copying and which relationships are to be available based on these subtypes.

You choose Defense Forces & Public Security → Organizational Flexibility → Command and Support Relationships → Define Usage Types to define (for copying structures) which relationships of the force element selected as the copy template (template relationships) are to be converted to which relationships of the copy if the corresponding relationship type has been selected.

To convert assignments of positions and material objects appropriately, the system uses the Customizing settings for usage types to determine which O-S relationships (position assignment) or usage types (material assignments) match the O-O relationships specified here.

You choose Defense Forces & Public Security → Organizational Flexibility → Force Element → BAdI: Define Follow-Up Activities After Copy Operation to specify the follow-up actions that the system performs once a force element or structure has been copied.

To generate assignments for logistics work centers after the copy procedure, see Assign Logistics Work Centers After Copy Operation .

Features

Activities

You are in the Structures Workbench (edit mode). You may have to select an organizational measure before you can edit force elements.

Choose the required structure and, in the structure area, select the force element that you want to use as a template.

Choose Structure Operations → Copy Force Element

If required, you can again specify a different force element as a template in the Element field.

Specify which assigned objects or assignments to objects are also to be copied.

In the V alid from/Valid to fields , specify the validity period for the copy.

As when you create a force element, select the required relationship type, the required relationships, and each force element to which you want to assign the copy.

Choose Continue.

If necessary, rename the copy and confirm your entries.

Save your changes.

You can now change or supplement the properties of the copies as required.

Example

The figure below is an example of Customizing for creating and copying force elements.

Three relationship types (regular force elementoperational force element, andexercise force element)are defined for object subtypeForce element

For the relationship typeoperational force element, a relationship group defines that relationships must be created for the operational force element.

For copying a structure from the organizational structure (usage typeorganizational structure) to the operational structure (relationship typeoperational force element), it is also defined that the relationships for thewartime establishmentof the force elements used as a template are to be converted to relationships for the operational structure. This also applies to position relationships and material assignments.

If you now want to use a force element (including substructure) of the organizational structure (usage type) as a template for an operational force element (relationship type) in the copy procedure, the system uses the relationships for the wartime establishment as a template for creating new operational relationships.

This figure shows how the system copies a structure, including assigned objects and their assignments, according to the example Customizing.

Selected usage type: organizational structure

Selected force element:FE 1

Selected relationship type: operational force element

Customizing for this combination:

Template: wartime establishment

Copy: operational structure

The system determines all force elements and positions assigned to force elementSE 1in the organizational structure (relationships 002 and 003) and copies these:

Force elementsFE 2FE 3, andFE 4

PositionsS 1andS 2assigned to force elementFE 2

Material planning objects are not copied

The system determines the objects for which relationships or assignments for the wartime establishment (relationships 800 and 801 as well as usage type V) exist and converts these to relationships or assignments of the operational structure (relationships 823 and 824 as well as usage type E):

Force elementFE 1is assigned to the new higher-level force element of the operational structure you specified.

Force elementsFE 2andFE 3are assigned to force elementFE 1

PositionS 2is assigned to force elementFE 2. PositionS 1remains without a relationship. An assignment to material planning objectMPO 2is also created.

The relationship forFE 4is not created since the higher-level force element is not part of the copied structure. However, the system issues a warning in the log.

Force elementFE 5was not copied since it is not assigned to force elementFE 1in the organizational structure. Accordingly, a relationship is not created.