Introduction to the SAP IMG Interface

Slide 2 Accessing the IMG Use transaction code SPRO or

Slide 3 Selecting a Project The IMG uses roughly two types of projects The SAP Reference IMG contains the SAP default We can also create custom projects SPRO_ADMIN

Slide 4 The IMG UI It’s a drill-down interface like the rest of SAP Configuration objects are organized in the order you “might” complete them Only leaf nodes can be executed

Slide 5 IMG – Business Configuration (BC) Sets In this class, we will “globally” configure system elements using the “SAP Reference IMG” In practice, we use BC sets BC sets can be created for specific processes These BC sets can be deployed separately SAP provides numerous BC sets for industries and industry sectors We can create our own BC sets too

Slide 6 BC Set (Implementation) Types: Simple BC sets contain configuration data Hierarchical BC sets contain other BC sets The hierarchy can be nested Attributes Name Type Release information Change information (person, date time)

Slide 7 SAP Transport (1) In SAP, instances (clients) are provisioned into different types Development (created from production backups) After development is complete, the system is copied to a “test / QA” system Then to a “consolidation system” Finally, the test system is deployed to the production system Custom intermediate systems can also be created

Slide 8 The IMG UI (Definement) Here, you are putting data into numerous configuration tables using a fairly simple table editing interface My example will be a Financial Accounting business area definition

Slide 9 Definement and Assignment (Examples) You define company codes and assign them to a company You define credit control areas and assign them to a company code There are hundreds of these We will get through many of the core functions in this course

Slide 10 The IMG UI (Definement Screens) Change View

Slide 11 The IMG UI (Definement Screens – Change View) Click New Entries to create a new row

Slide 12 The IMG UI (Definement Screens – New Entries) Add business area / description (key / value pairs These entries correspond to underlying SAP configuration tables

Slide 13 What Just Happened We just wrote a record to a master table View from the ABAP Dictionary

Slide 14 Example (Using the Dictionary 1) I’m going to look up information about the “Business Area” From the IMG window, click the field containing ZZZE and press F1 (help) Click Performance Assistant Icon

Slide 15 Example (Using the Dictionary 2) You see the technical information about the field from the data dictionary

Slide 16 Example (Using the Dictionary 3) Click the Table Name V_TGSB and click Navigate Note that we could also visit the program associated with this ‘transaction’ The next screen takes you back to the ABAP Dictionary

Slide 17 Example (Using the Dictionary 4) View Fields tab is active listing the field names and types in the “view”

Slide 18 Example (Using the Dictionary 5) Click Table / Join conditions to see the base tables used in the view. We will look at table TGSB

Slide 19 Example (Using the Dictionary 6) So here is the table TGSB (Business Areas)

Slide 20 Example (Using the Dictionary 7) Click on the Attributes table and see that the package is FBASCORE

Slide 21 Example (Using the Dictionary 8) So Back to the Object Navigator to look at the package FBASCORE

Slide 22 Example (Using the Dictionary 9) AND NOW ANOTHER PATH TO THE PROGRAM Starting again at the business areas

Slide 23 Example (Using the Dictionary 10) This time, click the Program name SAPLSVIM and select Navigate

Slide 24 Example (Using the Dictionary 11) This program contains only included modules from other programs

Slide 25 The IMG UI (Assignment) In the assignment steps, you are using lookup tables to connect defined tables together

Slide 26 Field Status Groups In many places in the IMG, we can change the behavior of various screens G/L accounts for example

Slide 27 Field Status

Slide 28 Field Status (Account Control)

Slide 29 Field Status (Viewing)

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