Assign SAP attributes (SAP Solution Manager 7.2)

You can assign the required ARIS attributes to the SAP® attributes. Attributes can be transferred bidirectionally between ARIS and SAP® Solution Manager during the SAP® synchronization.

Prerequisite

Procedure

  1. Open the solution configuration in ARIS Architect.

    1. In ARIS Architect, click ARIS > Show Administration Administration.

    2. Click Navigation Navigation in the bar panel if the Navigation bar is not activated yet.

    3. Open the Group SAP > Solution configurations (Solution Manager 7.2) folder. If you use ARIS Connector for SAP Solutions, open the Group SAP > ARIS Connectors for SAP Solutions folder. All registered SAP® Servers are displayed.

    4. Open the SAP® Server structure in which the solution is managed. The configurations on this SAP® Server are displayed.

  2. Select the configuration and expand the structure.

  3. Click Attribute assignment. The overview of settings is displayed.

  4. Click Edit Edit. The Edit attribute assignment dialog opens.

  5. Click Import SAP® attributes.

    All attributes of Text and Value data type, assigned to capabilities in SAP® Solution Manager are displayed. Customer attributes are without data type and attribute values. Some static attributes of the Value and Multi-value data type are available and can be assigned. If you use a customer attribute of the Multi-value data type, you must map an ARIS text attribute to save multiple values in ARIS.

  6. Before assigning customer attributes, you must maintain the data types. For attributes of the Value data type, maintain the attribute values according to the settings in the SAP system. To do so, click Customer attributes.

    The Manage customer attributes dialog opens to assign the required data types and attribute values.

  7. Manage the data types and attribute values.

  8. If a data type is Undefined, or you want to change an applied data type, click Down arrow in the line of this customer attribute and select the data type.

  9. For customer attributes of the Value data type, click the Browse button (...) to assign customer attribute values.

  10. Click Add attribute value to add an additional value key and attribute value to the list.

  11. Maintain the value keys and attribute values according to the values used in the SAP system.

  12. Click OK to close the Assign customer attribute values dialog.

  13. Click OK to close the Manage customer attributes dialog. Now you are back in the Edit attribute assignment dialog.

  14. To assign static attributes, click (...) in the ARIS attributes column, and select the attribute to be used for the corresponding SAP® attribute.

  15. Click OK.

The attributes are assigned. These attributes are transferred during the SAP® synchronization.