Structural overview objects include the design of the structural area of the Organization and Staffing interface. This part of the framework reflects the structure by using evaluation paths. It enables you to integrate new object types and relationships.
The process of displaying an object type in the structural overview involves the following steps:
- Define the service of the overview area
- Specify the properties of the service or the view
- Specify the valid object type in each case for the selection options.
- Specify the evaluation path with technical depth.
- Specify the column framework for the overview area.
Display of Object Type in Structural Overview Object: Process
The following list provides a description of each step in the process of displaying an object type in the structural overview:
- Define the service an overview or detail area offers:
The service that an overview or detail object offers is defined in the table T77OBJSER. For this reason, you must first define a service for the overview area in table T77OBJSER and assign an attribute service to it. To do this, enter a meaningful name or key for the service in the Service field of the interface object. In the Object Key field, enter the key of the structure overview object, GOWD (General Overview with Detail).
- Specify the attributes of the new service:
In this view, you specify the attributes of the new service. In the ObjectType field, enter the new object type for which the service is to be valid.
In the Selection field, specify the selection type, such as single or multiple selections. In the structure overview object, you can use drag to change the displayed structure. Here, the selection type determines whether you can select one or several objects.
- Specify the evaluation path with technical depth:
In the Evaluation Path field, enter the newly defined evaluation path. The system uses the evaluation path to define a structure tree, which then displays the structure overview object. To keep system response times to a minimum, the structure tree is not displayed in its fully expanded format. Instead, only the first n levels of the structure tree are visible. You define the level to which the structure tree is initially displayed, in the Technical Depth field.
- Specify the column group and header type:
In the Column Group field, enter a column group. NF_GEN_OV is a column group framework delivered by SAP that you can use generically. In Header field, you can enter a header type that redefines the column headers of the column group. This is optional.
Requests
The services of an overview or detail object are not called directly. They are available indirectly to all interface objects through requests. These requests control which overview and detail objects are displayed in a hierarchy framework scenario at a particular time. You must therefore set up the request.
To identify the scenario used in the framework, you can use the SET/GET parameter OM_FRAM_SCEN_DISPLAY to display the scenario name in the title bar.
Tab Page Adjustment
Adjust Tab Pages
You can adjust the detail area of the hierarchy framework for your organization.
You can adjust the detail area of the hierarchy framework for your organization in the following manner:
- Add customer infotypes to the detail area in the form of tab pages.
- Hide displayed infotypes or show infotypes that were previously excluded.
- Change the order in which the infotypes are displayed as tab pages.
You can display simple customer infotypes on a tab page in the detail area.
For the display, the system uses the subscreen generated for the infotype in transaction PPCI (screen number 7000).
To display a customer infotype on a tab page in a detail area includes the following steps:
- Enter the infotype number in the entry field and choose the Create pushbutton.
- On the next screen, choose Create Subscreen from the Infotype menu. This generates subscreen 7000. Because this is an SAP program, a system message appears. In this case, you can ignore the message.
- In table T77ID, under Subscreen, enter subscreen 7000 for the infotype.
- You can add the infotype as a tab page in the detail area. To do this, in Customizing, choose Personnel Management→Organizational Management→Hierarchy Framework→Integrate New Infotype.
You can define your own tab page (or table T77OMTABS; for example IT1000 -> IT1503). Add your own tab page to an existing tab page group (table T77OMTABUS). In other words, you assign the new tab page to an object type and a scenario.
You can integrate simple infotypes in the detail object display.
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