AGIMENDO.edit - Master Data Management and Excel Upload (Level 2)

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03. Juni 2016, Mathieu André, IBsolution GmbH

AGIMENDO.edit – Master Data Management and Excel Upload (Level 2)

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This webinar is targeted towards

• ABAP and WebDynpro developers and consultants

• Any person involved in spending a lot of time creating and maintaining of master data


In this webinar you will learn about

• AGIMENDO.edit and its concepts (views and info-object combination, UserExits, column extensions,…)

• The brand new Excel plugin for AGIMENDO.edit that allows to upload Excel files into master data tables or download master data tables to Excel


IBsolution Academy Certificate

Individual certificate for every attendee:

• Watch the webinar

• Take the Multiple-Choice-Test

• Answer 8 out of 10 questions correctly


Your speaker

Mathieu André

IBsolution GmbH


Agenda

1. Product overview and use cases

2. Basic functionalities

3. Advanced features: UserExits and column extensions

4. Excel plugin


AGIMENDO.editProducts overview and use cases


AGIMENDO products overview


Master Data Maintenance with AGIMENDO.edit

• Features

• Distributed, web-based maintenance of master data and texts for

InfoObjects

• Configurable user interfaces utilizing a web-based, wizard-supported

administration tool

• Multiple views per InfoObject possible

• Flexible view, user and role-based access control

• Support for the maintenance of multi-language texts

• Extendible by UserExits

• 100% Integration in Standard, no separate data store

• Configuration and operation possible without the support of the IT

department

• Use Cases and Prerequisites

• Reporting and Planning / minimum SAP BW 7.0 SP 15

• Delivery of product as a SAP-Transport Request with an Install Guide (EN)

• Remote-Support for Installation

Snapshot of Administration Wizard


Use cases

• Main Use Case: Master Data Maintenance

• Reporting: Preparation / Support

• Planning: Preparation / Support

• Master Data Planning / Data Store for Applications

• Procedure: The 3-step Guide

• Definition of Views

• Configure the views (Settings)

• Edit Master Data

• Extend: Build an application on the basis of AGIMENDO.edit

• Functionality: Extend the Standard

• Definition: Access rights and configuration in AGIMENDO.edit tables

• Runtime: Generation of views (WebDynpro) and access to master data

• Data Store: Exclusively in InfoObject, 100% BW-Standard


AGIMENDO.editBasic functionalities


AGIMENDO.edit basic features

• Views can be assigned to a project

• The project is the basis for the UserExit configuration

• A project is created and maintained using the view authorization tool

• Read-only for all fields in a view

• Values cannot be changed

• Values can be displayed and navigated within the view

• Assign fields to views

• Changes are saved immediately

• No reference fields possible

• Configuration details for view

• Assignments are saved immediately

• The order of the fields defines the order of the columns in the main table of the view

Project

View1

Iobj1 Iobj2

View2

Iobj3



• Options can be set individually for each attribute

• Mark editable and mandatory fields

• Activate UserExit-Creation flag to generate a value

• Display settings

• Text / Key/ Text & Key

• Only a key-field can be changed

• Common options for entries

• Create / Update / Delete

• Mass Update / Template-based Creation

• Access Control

• Activate Analysis Authorizations

• Optional: Define a limited authorization context



• Table Display Configuration

• Number of rows / columns / fixed columns

• Open filter row

• Define Deviating Button-Text

• One language: supply text

• Multi language: OTR Alias

• Technical Settings

• Activate currency display

• Keep current filter and selection after save

• Show URL of the view for integration in other applications

• Further technical information regarding the view



• Language Configuration / Translation support

• By default: display all available languages (eventually generated)

• Languages can be hidden

• More language options

• Hide non-configured languages

• Copy text to other language (UserExit)

• Column Extensions

• Display additional information not provided directly by the InfoObject

• Example: Text of a contained attribute like „country for a plant that produces the given material“

• Example: Calculated Information (e.g. currency conversion)

• Example: Original value

• Example: Information from other systems

• …


AGIMENDO.editAdvanced features


Customer-individual functionality: UserExits

• Goal

• Without modification,

• Configurable,

• Functional Extension

• Integration

• Implement functionality as a ABAP class

• Integrate the functionality as follows:

• Identify the requirements for the extension

• Check reuse of existing extensions

• Implement your extension class by inheriting from /ISV/PAQ0DCX_UE_IMP and redefining its methods.

• Configure your UserExit

Credits: dan paluska – „exit” under CC


UserExits List

• Filter and Sort

• CUSTOM_AUTHORISATION

• FILTER_LANGU

• GET_NEW_LINES_COUNT

• GET_SORT_FULL_TABLE

• BI_AUTHORISATION

• GET_TIMEDEP_LANGDEP_TEXT

• PCFG_AUTHORISATION

• Adapt Display

• CHANGE_ALV

• CUSTOM_POPUP_FIELD

• SHOW_BUTTONS

• EXECUTE_BTN_ACTION

• CUSTOM_VALUE_HELP

• GET_VALUE

• Save and Validate

• BEFORE_DELETE

• CUSTOM_AUTH_CREATE

• CUSTOM_VALIDATION

• TEST_FOR_MANDATORY_FIELD_CHECK

• AFTER_ATTR_CHG

• AFTER_DELETE

• AFTER_SAVE

• BEFORE_ATTR_CHG

• BI_AUTH_CREATE

• And many more…


Column Extensions

• Show additional information at runtime

• Examples

• Details on embedded fields likethe name of a country of a plant

• Computation of valuese.g. currency conversion

• Predefined functions to determine the values

• Read values of embedded fields/attributes/ISV/CL_AE_EXT_COL_IOBJ_ATTR

• Read additional texts/ISV/CL_AE_EXT_COL_IOBJ_TXT

• Customer-specific functions such as:

• Marking top-5 items with a star

• Disabling input for specific records


AGIMENDO.editExcel Plugin


Excel Plugin

• Requires:

• SAP BW 7.4 or later

• AGIMENDO.edit 2.14.1 or later

• Upload master data from CSV and XLSX

• Download AGIMENDO.edit views as well

• Checks syntax errors while AGIMENDO.edit checks the semantic errors


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