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Result When you have created an Area Menu you go to editing mode. See also: Edit Area Menu Enhance Area Menu
If you created a new Area Menu, only the Area Menu description which you entered is displayed, as above. Result See also: Create Menu Entries Edit Menu Entries Enhance Area Menu
Insert transactions When you put transactions in the menu, you must enter the transaction code and the menu entry text. If you enter a transaction code without a text, the transaction name is used as a text. If the transaction code is not in the current system, the transaction code is used as text. Insert reports To put reports in the area menu, choose the Report pushbutton . Choose the report which you want to insert, in the following dialog. Select a report type. The input fields for the type appear.
Create transaction code automatically A transaction code is generated for the selected report when you leave the dialog. You must specify the development class and possibly a transport request. If the selected report already has a transaction code, it is used. Manual transaction code assignment To specify the transaction code for the report, choose Display other options. Two additional input fields, in which you can specify the transaction code and a descriptive text, appear. You must deactivate the input field checkboxes Generate automatically and Copy report description. Enter folders To enter folders, enter a text without a transaction code. The entry is interpreted as a folder. Inserting references in submenus You can put references to other Area Menus (including previous Report trees) in an Area Menu. In this way you can construct a menu from several submenus which are maintained separately. Activate the menu references checkbox in the menu entry creation dialog. You can now enter an Area Menu name, or choose one in the F4 help, instead of a transaction code. If you are not in the menu entry creation dialog, choose Edit -> Reference to another structure -> As subnode/At the same level. A dialog, in which you can specify another area menu and the menu entry text, appears A referred submenu appears in display mode and in the system as an integral part of the Area Menu.
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If you insert entries from the clipboard with the pushbutton, they are inserted as subnodes if you have selected a folder. In all other cases, the entries are inserted at the same level, next to the selected entry.
Change If you choose the processing mode Change, all changes are saved as repairs. These changes are then overwritten by a transport of the menu from the original system. Enhancement In the editing mode Enhancement, new menu entries are retained after the next transport of the menu from the original system. You must specify an enhancement ID. The enhancement ID creation dialog appears before editing the menu. It distinguishes whether the current system is original or not. Choose Create enhancement ID or choose an existing ID from the list.
Enhancement IDs are transportable objects, so a transport dialog appears after an enhancement ID has been created. Enhanced menu entries are only displayed if the system contains the enhancement ID. If you create menu enhancements, but do not transport the enhancement ID with the menu, they will not be displayed in the transport target system.
Click on Create. Enter the name of the Area Menu and the Description of the same.
Click on OK. Now save and execute the Transaction ZDEMO. Output:
Click Save The user will be able to see the additional transaction on the next logon.
The CUA area menus are converted to tree navigation in Release 4.6A. The menu contents are automatically copied into a new data structure in Upgrade to Release 4.6A or higher. You can edit Area Menus with a new maintenance interface (Area Menu maintenance transaction: SE43). Reporting Tree Integration - Only transactions could previously be put in Area Menus. From Release 4.6A you can also put all the types of reports which are in reporting trees, in Area Menus. The system automatically assigns a transaction code to call the report from the menu. If you have already put the report in another Area Menu, no new transaction code is generated; the unique transaction code already assigned is used. You can create Area Menus from complete reporting trees with the migration transaction RTTREE_MIGRATION. The report transaction codes are generated automatically. Reporting trees can only be displayed. They cannot be maintained. To modify the contents of reporting trees, you must convert them with the migration transaction. You can then modify the contents with the Area Menu maintenance. Advantages of the new Area Menus The new data structure has the following advantages: Delinking by reference technique You can construct a menu from submenus which are maintained separately in different systems.
The list is under table SERPTREE Reporting: Tree Structure Example: RKS1 menu from Information system belongs to Cost Center Accounting:
SAP screen will ask you which language the copy will be created, choose English; for the development class fill it with one of the default sap development class, exp. ZDEV; and click save. It will prompt you to make a transportable Workbench request. You have to create this because we will need to transport the new SAP menu to the destination client. Click "create request" (F8) and fill in the short description. It will create new request number. Click to continue. To modify your new SAP menu, please click the change area menu button (F6).
In the Edit Area-menu you can select one of the node/sub-node and make your changes by clicking one of the buttons on the screen: Add entry as sub-node (Shift-F7), add entry at the same level (Shift-F8), change nodes (Shift-F9), .etc. After you have finished your changes, click the save button. Now that you have done the changes, the next thing is that you have to transport your area menu to the destination client (the client that you want to show the new SAP menu to your users). You can do this by using t-code SE10 to release your change request, and use t-code STMS to import your change request number that you have been released (as usual transport). To apply your new SAP menu to the user, all you have to do is login to the destination client. Use tcode SU01, fill in the username and then click the change button (Shift-F6). Click the default-tab and fill in your new SAP menu name in the start menu textbox. Click Save. If you want to set your new SAP menu to several/all users at the same time, use t-code SU10 (user maintenance: mass changes).
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Save . Now, the transaction Z0118_PL001 will be find in SAP Easy Menu under submenu Balance sheet/P+L statement (where was insert).
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