Work Center Structure

The role-based work centers of SAP Solution Manager use a common user interface, which has identical basic parts and differs depending on the role and purpose of the work center.

A work center consists of the following basic elements:

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

Overview of the Structure of a Work Center (when Called in a Web Browser)

Navigation bar
It represents the first level of navigation whose tabs you use to select the work center. The system highlights the respective selected entry.

Navigation area
It represents the second level of navigation, where you can, depending on the role, select the following with reference to the work center:
- Views
  The system highlights the currently selected view (work center specific or the overview).
- Hyperlinks
- Functions
You can enlarge and shrink, or close and expand the navigation area.

Content area

The system updates it depending on the view selected in the navigation area. The following table summarizes the available functions:

Navigation Element	Content Area
Overview	Provides a summary of the important contents of the selected work center, aggregated from the views and analyses of the work center. Examples are quick links to filtered lists, such as analyses. They refer, amongst other things, to alerts, projects, systems, and solutions that are assigned to your role and area of responsibility.
<Work Center-Specific Views>	Contains lists and service maps relevant to the work center. The lists consist of objects that you can display and edit from different perspectives. There are also functions that you can perform from this view: Service maps support some tasks. You get additional information for the tasks in the form of figures and descriptions and can call the associated functions.
<Subviews>	Depending on the work center-specific view, the system expands the corresponding subviews, for example, for the Projects view, the system displays as selection of hyperlinks Subprojects.
Analyses	Provides analyses for the selected work center. Note Not all work centers include analyses. End of the note.
Typical Tasks	Contains functions that can be called from every work center view.
Links	Provides links to helpful information and functions that contain content relevant to the selected work center. Here, the system offers predefined questions, for example, to display all red alerts. When you select an entry, the system displays the function or information in a new window. Your system administration can define the entries in this area for each work center, in the work center roles. For more information, see the Customizing for SAP Solution Manager under: SAP Solution Manager Technical Settings Work Center SAP Solution Manager Capabilities < `Name of Work Centers` > Authorizations/User .

To get a better overview, you can compact and expands individual info areas (trays). There is often a list of objects that you can edit in the content area. When you select an object in the list, the system displays details of this object below the list, if they are available.