Introduction to the SAP IMG Interface

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Accessing the IMG Use transaction code SPRO or

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Selecting a Project The IMG uses roughly two types of

projects The SAP Reference IMG contains the SAP

default

We can also create custom projects SPRO_ADMIN

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The IMG UI It’s a drill-down interface like the rest of

SAP Configuration objects are organized in

the order you “might” complete them Only leaf nodes can be executed

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IMG – Business Configuration (BC) Sets In this class, we will “globally” configure

system elements using the “SAP Reference IMG”

In practice, we use BC sets BC sets can be created for specific

processes These BC sets can be deployed separately

SAP provides numerous BC sets for industries and industry sectors

We can create our own BC sets too

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BC Set (Implementation) Types:

Simple BC sets contain configuration data Hierarchical BC sets contain other BC sets

The hierarchy can be nested Attributes

Name Type Release information Change information (person, date time)

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SAP Transport (1) In SAP, instances (clients) are

provisioned into different types Development (created from production

backups) After development is complete, the

system is copied to a “test / QA” system Then to a “consolidation system” Finally, the test system is deployed to the

production system Custom intermediate systems can also be

created

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The IMG UI (Definement) Here, you are putting data into

numerous configuration tables using a fairly simple table editing interface

My example will be a Financial Accounting business area definition

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Definement and Assignment (Examples) You define company codes and assign

them to a company You define credit control areas and

assign them to a company code There are hundreds of these We will get through many of the core

functions in this course

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The IMG UI (Definement Screens) Change View

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The IMG UI (Definement Screens – Change View) Click New Entries to create a new row

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The IMG UI (Definement Screens – New Entries) Add business area / description (key /

value pairs These entries correspond to underlying

SAP configuration tables

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What Just Happened We just wrote a record to a master table View from the ABAP Dictionary

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Example (Using the Dictionary 1) I’m going to look up information about

the “Business Area” From the IMG window, click the field

containing ZZZE and press F1 (help)

Click Performance Assistant Icon

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Example (Using the Dictionary 2) You see the technical

information about the field from the data dictionary

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Example (Using the Dictionary 3) Click the Table Name V_TGSB and

click Navigate Note that we could also visit the

program associated with this ‘transaction’

The next screen takes you back to the ABAP Dictionary

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Example (Using the Dictionary 4) View Fields tab is active listing the field

names and types in the “view”

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Example (Using the Dictionary 5) Click Table / Join conditions to see the

base tables used in the view. We will look at table TGSB

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Example (Using the Dictionary 6) So here is the table TGSB (Business

Areas)

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Example (Using the Dictionary 7) Click on the Attributes table and see

that the package is FBASCORE

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Example (Using the Dictionary 8) So Back to the Object Navigator to look

at the package FBASCORE

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Example (Using the Dictionary 9) AND NOW ANOTHER PATH TO THE

PROGRAM Starting again at the business areas

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Example (Using the Dictionary 10) This time, click the Program name

SAPLSVIM and select Navigate

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Example (Using the Dictionary 11) This program contains only included

modules from other programs

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The IMG UI (Assignment) In the assignment steps, you are using

lookup tables to connect defined tables together

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Field Status Groups In many places in the IMG, we can

change the behavior of various screens G/L accounts for example

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Field Status

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Field Status (Account Control)

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Field Status (Viewing)

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