SAP Solution Manager - How to migrate changes in Business Scenarios from Template Project to Solution?
Our Global ASAP strategy is based upon a Template Project, Implementation Project, Maintenance Project and Solution with Business Scenarios.
Changes in the Template Project for existing and new Business Sceanarios, etc. are correctly executed. Up till now we have successfully implemented our Template Project and secondly extended our Business Scenarios from 4 to 14. Our 3rd upcoming change will be changes on Business Scenarios as well. These planned changes for the Business Scenarios need to be consistent, possibly without manual intervention.
During a Proof of Concept (PoC) in our Sandbox (SXB) we have identified a possible serious problem when trying to publish these changes in Business Scenarios in the Template Project to the Solution. SAP Solution Manager (SSM) does not seem to support a scenario where Business Scenarios in the Solution can be refreshed or updated with changed Business Scenarios in the Template Project.
We have identified 2 possibillities:
1. Manual project upgrade
1.1. Synchronize the changes for the Template Project normally;
1.2. Delete the changed Business Scenarios from step 1.1 in the Solution;
1.3. Add the changed Business Scenarios from step 1.1 into the Solution.
For this scenario we foresee a big problem because all Content and Issues connected to the old Solution Business Scenarios loose their coupling with the Solution.
For the Content this may not be a real problem because the Content is also available in the Template Project.
However the Issues are loosely coupled to the Solution Scenarios and therefore need to be coupled manually to these processes.
2. Manual changes using Maintenance Project
2.1. Synchronize the changes for the Template Project normally;
2.2. Publish all changes from step 2.1 in the Template Project
2.3. Add all new Content from step 2.1 to the structure of the Maintenance Project;
2.4. Relocate Content and Issues when the Business Scenario has been relocated.
Because SSM does not support this activity we need to delete this Business Scenario first and secondly re-create it again on the correct spot.
Our question: How has SAP done this in other customer projects?
We need to have a working solution by the end of March, 2009.
Best regards,
Peter Hendriksen
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