Hello together,
I wonder if anyone can explain to me how the shadow- and shortcut symbols are properly used in the ARIS-SolMan synchronisation.
I'm not sure I understood the difference between those two and also their purpose
thanks in advance
Michi
Hi Michi,
Both of these symbols have to deal with synchronization with Solution Manager. They were created because the synchronization does not work properly when a function object has occurrences on more than one model. So, if you consider the situation where you DO have the same function on let's say two models only, you need to answer the following question regarding what result you need to see in Solution Manager after the synchronization:
1. Do you need to see this function appear in two places (once for each of the models on which it occurs) in the business process hierarchy in SolMan when the synchronization completes?
If the answer is "NO," then you would use the 'shadow symbol' for the second occurrence of the function. This symbol causes the function to be 'ignored' during the synchronization. (This means that the function would only appear one time in the business process hierarchy in SolMan.)
If the answer is "Yes," then you would use the 'shortcut symbol' for the second occurrence of the function. This symbol is taken into consideration during the synchronization and the function will appear two times in the business process hierarchy in SolMan. The 'shortcut instance' of this object in the business process heierachy has a 'link' applied to it that, when clicked, will take you to the 'master object' in the business process hierarchy. (It automatically navigates to a different spot in the business process hierarchy.) Also, any of the associated tabs in SolMan for this 'shortcut instance' have this same link. So, basically, you can only manipulate (for example, link a document) the 'master object.'
I hope this was somewhat clear for you....
Best Regards,
Bob
Hello, guys!
I did synchronization of Aris 7.2 with Solman 7.1 some years ago. At the time I used SAP shortcuts symbol for steps that had more than one occurences. And it all working great during synchronization process.
Now I am trying to do the same thing for Aris 9.8 and Solman 7.2 that is using Soldoc, and it seems that SAP shortcut symbols for steps are no longer working as I keep getting error that a step with the same SAP ID can not be synchronized. Can anyone confirm that shortcut symbols no longer woth in these versions of Aris and Solman?
As of right now, the only way around this problem that I see is to make seperate object definition for every occurance of a step. But this solution is very unconvinient from the Aris architecture side. Does anyone have any other solution for this problem?
I’ve found answer to my question on official ARIS SAP integration presentation which says that shortcuts are no longer supported in solman 7.2
Here is the extract of that text(Document is called Migrating SAP projects to SAP® Solution Manager 7.2 solutions ):
SHORTCUTS AND OCCURRENCE COPIES
Shortcuts have been replaced by the relation between PSL elements and database elements. In ARIS occurrence copies of model objects that were considered by the former synchronization, e.g. process steps, will not be offered anymore. Now, references between objects will be in place. In ARIS, when copy and paste a SAP-related object, such a master-variant relation will be created. Of cause you are supported by a wizard.
