Building a Production Operator Dashboard (POD) in SAP Digital Manufacturing (SAP DM) involves considerable effort, insight, and input from a variety of sources. Along the way, unique configurations and customizations often emerge, which gradually become integrated into the POD. There are instances when a well-configured SAP DM POD may need to be replicated and utilized in different factories or tenants, requiring you to clone the SAP DM POD across various locations within the same tenant or different tenants. Whereas the POD Designer allows duplication within the same plant, no user-interface-based method exists to duplicate an SAP DM POD across multiple tenant/plant locations.
However, there's no need to despair. There is a solution for this in SAP DM. A designated API has been introduced specifically for this purpose. You can find more details on the public API reference here: https://api.sap.com/api/sapdme_pod/resource/Production_Operator_Dashboard
The process of copying the POD using the abovementioned API involves two steps:
Firstly, export the selected POD from the existing tenant. Essentially, this involves downloading the POD that's already been created.
Secondly, you're now able to import the downloaded POD into the intended tenant/plant combination. Let's discover how to implement these two steps.
- Execute the Export
Send a GET request to the endpoint specified below. It's crucial to replace the parameters with the accurate information for your system:
{{gateway-ms}}/pod/v1/export?plant={{Plant}}&podId={POD_NAME_HERE} . Alternatively use the API directly in the Try Out section in the SAP Business Accelerator Hub., as shown below:
- Carry Out the Import
The second step of copying a POD using an existing tenant is to carry out the import.
To do this, submit a POST request to the following endpoint. Remember to replace the parameters with the correct data for your system:
{{gateway-ms}}/pod/v1/import
Regarding the Body Form Data Parameters, these are the guidelines, which are also mentioned as standard body inputs in the SAP Business Accelerator Hub.
| Key | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|
| File | File - You must set this setting | The location and name of the pod configuration file being imported |
| Plant | Text | The name of the plant you want to import the pod to |
| PODID | Text | The name of the pod after import |
In the following video, an export and an import of our recently created Welding POD to the same plant and tenant will be executed to demonstrate the process:
Note
There are manual activities to be executed after the import of a POD – not every item gets transferred. You need to make sure that the custom lists are there and check all the transactions and Production Processes (PPs) behind any Action Buttons because those are tenant-specific.