Check Business Processes In/Out in Solution Manager

Purpose

As project team member, you want to:

● check business scenarios and/or processes which have already been used productively, out of the Solution Directory, to adjust or change them in a maintenance project.

● check business processes which have been changed or adjusted for production processing in a maintenance project (transaction SOLAR01), back into the Solution Directory.

As project leader or administrator, you want to:

● confirm business scenarios or processes to be checked out of the Solution Directory, and assign them to project team members for processing.

● confirm changed or adjusted business scenarios or processes from the maintenance project (transaction SOLAR01) which are to be checked in, for production processing.

Prerequisites

You have assigned a maintenance project with project team members, to your solution, and selected the check-out function in the solution settings.

Process Flow

Once the business scenarios or processes are checked out, they can no longer be changed in the Solution Directory.

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1. Check-out of the Solution Directory into the maintenance project (transaction SOLAR01)

You are in the Solution Landscape Maintenance (Solution Directory):

a. as project team member:

i. Select the business scenario or process, in the Structure tab.

ii. Click on the button Request.

The system changes the status of the change request to Check-Out Requested.

You can reset the request with the pushbutton Cancel Request.

iii.

b. as project leader or administrator:

i. Choose Check Out to check the processes in the project out.

If you have assigned the roles for the project leader, the project team member selection appears.

ii. Assign project team members by selecting them.

iii. Confirm.

The system changes the status of the change request to Checked-Out.

The checked out business scenario or process appears in the maintenance project under the hierarchy node for your solution.

2. Check-in from the maintenance project (transaction SOLAR01) into the Solution Directory

a. as project team member:

You are in the Business Blueprint (transaction SOLAR01). The system displays the status Checked Out.

i. Select the business scenario or process, in the Structure tab.

ii. Click on the button Ready.

The system changes the status to Check-In Requested.

To be able to release the processes, you must set the status of all associated documents, such as documentation, test cases, etc. to Released.

b. as project leader or administrator:

You are in the Solution Directory for your solution. The system shows the change request status as Check-In Requested.

i. Choose Check-In.

ii. Save.

Result

You can trace changes to your business processes, in the change history.