Customizing the Hierarchy Framework of the Organization and Staffing interface

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to customize the object manager

Hierarchy Framework of the Organization and Staffing Interface

The hierarchy framework is a Basis development that helps you to program applications for visualizing and modifying hierarchical structures and objects. It provides a framework for displaying hierarchical structures like the ones you create in Organizational Management (OM).

The interface layout of an application created by using the hierarchy framework, for example the Organization and Staffing interface, is divided into the following screen areas:

Object Manager:
The area on the left of the screen is called the object manager and always consists of a search area and a selection area.
Work Area:
The area on the right of the screen is called the work area. It is built in a specific way for each application. The Organization and Staffing interface is divided into the overview area and the detail area.

The menu bar and the application toolbar are above the object manager and the work area.

If you want to display the basic technical names of the individual screen areas, you must maintain the user parameters listed in the table with a value of ‘X’ to activate the parameters.

The following table describes the user parameters:

Set/Get Parameter IDParameter ValueShort Description
OM_OBJM_SCEN_DISPLAYXDisplays Object Manager Scenario for Customizing
OM_FRAM_SCEN_DISPLAYXDisplays Hierarchy Framework Scenario for Customizing
OM_ARRAYTYPE_DISPLAYXDisplays array type information for Customizing (this is the column framework)
OM_TABTYPE_DISPLAYXDisplays tab type information for Customizing (this is the technical tab  card key)

Customizing for the Hierarchy Framework

To make it easier to adjust the hierarchy framework in OM, SAP has added the most important table entries for maintenance to Customizing as Customizing activities.

You must perform some of the Customizing steps for your customer-specific adjustments.

The process for adding search nodes to the object manager is as follows:

  • Define your own search nodes for the object type.
  • Adjust the search area.

You can adjust the search area in the following ways:

  • Add further nodes to the search area or change the sequence of the search nodes.
  • Exclude search nodes.
  • Adjust search nodes, and while doing so, assign search tools to your own search node.
  • Exclude search tools from a search node.

The object manager offers you several configuration options.

The configuration options include the following examples:

  • Specify the object types that are available for searches.
  • Define search tools.
  • Specify which additional information should be displayed with the hit list in the selection area.

A specific object manager configuration is represented by an object manager scenario.

How to Customize the Object Manager

Steps

  1. Refer to the exercise titled Customize the Object Manager for the detailed steps to complete this demonstration.