SWO1 (Business Object Builder) TCode in SAP

Sequence of steps processed either by people or by the SAP System. The chronological and logical sequence of the steps, linked to the evaluation of conditions, is monitored by the workflow manager and can be controlled flexibly with event-related response mechanisms. From a technical point of view, a workflow is represented by a workflow work item (type F).

The process in which an expense report or cash advance request is routed for approval and payment processing after it is submitted by an employee.

The sequence of steps forming the visual interface of an automation (Cloud Studio) or a scenario (Desktop Studio).

A workflow comprises business logic defined within a controller, and settings that are configured for each. Workflows are implemented by all jobs. Example: To upload assets in client applications, apply a workflow which determines how the asset derivatives are built.

Approval process followed within the organization to lead a contract from start to finish. Workflow is configured by administrators in CLM.

The process used to restrict user access to packages. It also enables you to define the hierarchy level of each user accessing the package.

The steps users are following during the review process or another approval process. It is used to manage a form, such as a performance review, through a series of steps up to and including completion.

A logical sequence of actions carried out by the system to perform a business process.

A logical sequence of steps carried out by people or the system to perform a business process. It includes the tasks to be performed, steps in each procedure, people involved, required input and output information, and the functions required for each step. The workflow engine manages the workflow. It determines when to move to the next step in the process.

Execution of an ABAP program using a transaction code. The following types of transactions are available: Dialog transactions, report transactions, parameter transactions, variant transactions, and OO transactions. A transaction is started by entering the transaction code in the command field on the standard toolbar or by using the statements CALL TRANSACTION or LEAVE TO TRANSACTION.

Logical R/3 process. From the user perspective, a transaction represents a unit (such as a change to a customer address or the execution of a program). From the ABAP programming perspective, a transaction one of two ways in which a user can call an ABAP program. The other method is to execute an executable program (or report).

Specific type of data containing information about an exchange such as a purchase. It must contain at least a session identifier and an item that is the object of the exchange.

A company card expense transaction imported from the card provider.

The event-controlled representation of a condition that triggers an immediate posting if an activity occurs in the contract, such as a change to the contract master date, or the posting of a payment item.

An activity or event related to a loyalty member, which is processed by the rules defined in the loyalty program.

Any sequence of actions performed by a user that could contribute to providing recommendations to a customer. For example, a business action in which a payment card is used to purchase goods or services, or the clickstream performed by a user to navigate to an item detail page.

The original sales (or other event) data, which includes sub-line data (who it was sold to, amount, and so on) on an order. Used as the basic undata for compensation processing in SAP Commissions.

The classification of postings in various SAP application components based on various business points of view. &EXAMPLE& Enter an invoice Post a goods receipt Create a confirmation Transactions are used to control the data flow between various application components.

A transaction, for example, cost estimation creation, and interest or inflation rate adjustment, for processing obligations, such as asset retirement obligations.

Groups together various accounting documents within a down payment chain. The transaction category determines which documents can be grouped together.

Transactions represent payments that occur at a bank. LMS uses a number of user-definable types of transactions such as anticipated, pending, expected, and actual.

A transaction is a change to an application or change option, which is executed online by a user, or in the background by the system, in a business process. This affects the Application or Change Option business object, and has the following properties: The change creates a new status in the Application or Change Option business object or creates a journal entry in the application or change option journal can be uniquely identified in the business object and in the journal, using the key policy number, contract number and journal number.

(ICM) An umbrella term for the events that may be triggered by a credentials check.

An information packet inside an EDIFACT market message. A transaction, together with the sender and receiver information from the message header, can be processed independently.

An action type that is used to define the URL of an external or internal application.

(MFG-LPO) An event that causes a change in material inventory.

The transaction action step type instantiates a transaction on the Agentry client and defines what screen set to display the transaction instance in.

A single unit payment instruction that will be initiated by a Corporate Subscriber and executed at the Financial Services Subscriber or a single unit statement sent by a Financial Services Subscriber to the Corporate Subscriber.

A business action in which a payment card is used to purchase goods or services. The merchant is credited and money is collected from the cardholder or issuing bank.

A sequence of information exchange treated as a unit so all related data is changed in its entirety. For example, an order transaction involves checking an inventory database, confirming the availability of the item, placing the order, and confirming the order. This ensures that order and inventory data is modified consistently.

An area in a separate file into which the print data of attached documents are written if the Adobe-based form printing solution is used. The output control displays the individudal parts of a spool request.

Subdivision of an electronic record into a sub-section. Parts are represented in the form of a record file in paper records management.

An object that is combined with other objects to make up a 3D model. Parts can be arranged in a hierarchical manner to form a sub-assembly or an assembly.

A material that can be built in to a vehicle.

A business object type that can participate in a structure as an assembly or component, with or without attached datasets.

A single piece of an item of equipment. For example: seal, tube, shell, gasket, filler.

To transmit an event from one application to another.

The process of transferring requests and documents, for example, a registration request, a questionnaire, or a certificate, from the buy side to the sell side of SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management and the other way round.

A tab within the Information Space creation and Information Space modification dialogs. Used for selecting and modifying the Universe objects that make up your Information Spaces.

A model of a real-world object, for example, an employee or a sales order in business application systems.

An object which describes the structure and behavior of a real-world object. A business object: Consists of a hierarchy of BO nodes, which represent the data. Is an independently viable entity with identifiable instances. Bundles functions and data, both of which are accessible from the outside. Is described by a data model, an internal process model and one or more service interfaces. Besides this, business objects are core structuring elements of applications, and are centrally defined at SAP as part of an overall governance process.

An actual instance (assigned values at runtime) of a business object type defined at definition time.

A set of entities with common characteristics and common behavior representing well-defined business semantics. The set of entities is generally accepted in the business world (for example in an international standard or industry best practices). Examples are "Sales Order" or "Purchase Order".

A unit that is used to model business content, which is represented as a hierarchical tree of nodes. A single node includes a set of semantically related attributes and the corresponding business logic. For each node, several types of entities can be defined to describe the specific business logic part of the business object.

A concept in the ABAP RESTful programming model that is used to describe real-world artifacts such as the Product or the Sales Order. A business object provides a data model, a behavior and the corresponding runtime implementation.

A semantic entity that represents the smallest data unit to take part in a business scenario.

A business object is a representation of an identifiable business entity such as a customer, a sales order or a product that is defined once and becomes the building block of the business. It is described by a data model, an internal process model and one or more service interfaces.

An object that is used to model a business process. A business object is a semantic entity, which represents the smallest logical unit to take part in a business scenario. Examples of business objects in the SAP NetWeaver portal include "customer", "invoice", "order", "material", and "Collaboration object".

Contains information relevant for transferring money from one financial institution to another.

Grouping of multiple entities from business points of view, as business processing normally takes place for many entities simultaneously, and not for individual entities. The most important internal business objects are: Application Contract Change Option It is also possible to manage the data for a business object on a cross-application basis. This allows partner data for a contract to be stored in a partner system, for example. FS-PM only saves the reference to the partner system.

(ICM) Top node of the object hierarchy to be processed in the commission case. Examples of business objects in an insurance scenario: Business transaction Contract Policy Customer Coverage Risk

Business object such as an advanced shipping notification (ASN) or a purchase order.

A means of representing business content, for example, a shopping cart, an RFx, or a purchase order.

(SV-ASA) A central business object in the real world, such as a purchase order. Business objects describe complete business processes. This type of encapsulation reduces complexity because the inner structure of the business object remains concealed. By calling Business APIs (BAPIs), external applications can access and manipulate the business objects using the Internet, DCOM or CORBA.

A container for marketing activities with a proposed spend, for example, for a market, country, or brand, that can be used to create marketing campaigns.

A document containing information about energy-efficiency or demand- response goals, the measures that a participant must implement to contribute to the fulfillment of these goals, and the incentives that are to be provided to the participant in return for successful implementation of the measures.

A time-restricted campaign used for reporting.

The project and phase for a well completion.

A container with a specific goal, for example, the treatment of diabetes. The health program contains a set of tasks for the patient. The tasks contain targets to motivate behavioral changes in the patient. The health program is assigned to an organization. A user in the organization then assigns it to patients.

A method of delivering academic-style, interval-based learning according to the user’s progress or defined schedule.

A code assigned to parts, users, or documents to restrict users' ability to edit, view, or select data.

Project of the project category 'program' to which other projects or programs are assigned. It is used to map complex project structures.

A group of activities aimed at achieving one or more mid-term or long-term strategic objectives that are the responsibility of a specific ministry or agency within the federal government of the United Arab Emirates. A program can be divided into subprograms. During the budget preparation process, for example, budget amounts can be posted to a particular program and its subprograms.

The SAP PartnerEdge Partner Program for Services Partners or any successor program thereto (if any) made available by SAP during the Term.

An organizational unit that administrates a group of projects or sub programs. A program represents a complex, time restricted project for achieving higher-level goals within an extensive strategy.

A program represents a group of related projects managed collectively to achieve a common goal. Projects can optionally be assigned to programs.

A business object used to plan a long-term purchasing strategy, including related activities, for one or more categories. Each program defines an objective and allocates a spending budget to meet this objective.

Standard SAP format for electronic data interchange between systems (Intermediate Document). Different messages types (such as delivery notes or purchase orders) generally correspond to different special formats, known as IDoc types. Multiple message types with related content can, however, be assigned to a single IDoc type. &EXAMPLE& The IDoc type ORDERS01 sends the logical messages types ORDERS (purchase order) and ORDRSP (order confirmation). IDocs are used, for example, in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and in data distribution within a system group (ALE).

A person or company whose data is used by Concur.

Returns the data for a CompositeProvider that is created in Workspace Designer.

External applications that can be integrated with CLM, such as, DocuSign, AdobeSign, CPQ, and so on.

A program part of the crawler. It transmits objects found to services or applications.

The vendor or carrier of a benefit plan. Example Insurance companies and Health Maintenance Organizations (USA only) are plan providers.

The supplier to an organization of a specified flexible benefit, such as a company car, personal pension scheme or private medical insurance, for enrollment by employees of that organization. Examples Insurance companies or car leasing groups.

The party responsible for providing IT services or a product to a customer. This can be performed by an in-house provider or a third party.

A company that provides travel services such as flights, rental cars, or lodging. The names of travel partners are used in the statistical analysis of expense reports.

The description of an object in ABAP Objects. An object type refers either to the class for the entire object, or to the interface used for a part of an object. The generic data type assigned here is 'object'.

Classification explaining the purpose of the texts stored in a translation object. For example, a text stored in a translation object with the object type MESSAGE (MESS) is displayed in the bottom left corner of the screen to make the user aware of an error or warning.

A type of development object. Most development objects belong to one of the two predefined object types - R3TR and LIMU. R3TR includes complex objects, such as programs and the elements that belong to it, while LIMU addresses individual elements of the system, such as a single screen.

A description created at definition time in the Business Object Builder of data (objects) used in the system. Object types include: Documents such as invoices, purchase requisitions and job applications Master data such as customer, material, and vendor Movement data such as order or quotation Object types are described and implemented by specifying basic data, keyfields, attributes methods with parameters, result and exceptions, events with parameters and implementation program The Business Object Repository provides a full directory of all object types. The object type must be defined before its data (objects) can be used in the system.

A classification of objects that can be generated and managed by Service Implementation Workbench (SIW). An object type within SIW can be a class, a report, an interface, a data element, an enhancement spot, or a table entry.

Grouping of objects according to the related business objects.

A type of account assignment object. &EXAMPLE& Cost centers Business processes Internal orders Work breakdown structure elements Profitability segments

Customer-defined grouping of objects for which customer-specific attributes are supported as part of attribute enhancement.

Class of searchable objects with similar attributes (such as customer, supplier, product). An object type has attributes with which you can refine the search.

Type of the object to be reorganized. Examples: Material, purchase order Cost centers, internal orders, work breakdown structure elements (WBS elements) Receivables and payables Fixed asset

A freely-definable identification characteristic derived from the object category. Object types are used to classify collateral objects in more detail within the collateral object category. &EXAMPLE& Apartment

(ICM) Business element that can be assigned to a valuation. Object types can be classified as: Higher-level object types For example, a contract. Lower-level object types For example, contract components, tariffs, product information.

Classification of all different objects which can be displayed in the overview area of the SmartUI patient record.

A categorization of change objects according to the object reference for engineering change management. Objects such as bills of material, task lists, document or materials can be processed with reference to a change number: For bills of material or task lists, differences in processing can be defined by specifying an object sub-type such as material or document bills of materials For some change objects, such as BOMs, and documents, the change can be controlled using individual object management records such as material bill of material M-1, plant 0001,or usage 1.

Categorization of objects to be distributed for product distribution, according to object. For example, the following objects can be distributed: material, document, class, and material BOM.

Type of asset (for example, equipment) for which the repair was performed and for which the claim is raised.

An object type lets you classify objects according to features and types of information and arrange them in categories. The following object types are examples of those used in Personnel Management: Business events Business event groups Business event types Courses Course groups Course types Companies External persons Jobs Services Locations Organizational units Positions Qualifications Requirements profiles Resources Resource types Standard tasks (delivered by SAP and client-independent)

A type of object that you process in the Engineering Workbench. An object can, for example, be a type of "task list type," "item," or "component assignment."

Grouping for project elements. You can use the following object types in Project Management: Project type Phase type Checklist type Task type

Service providers enable integration of elements into in Records Management and access to elements. Each service provider is responsible for a particular group of elements. Service providers must be implemented and registered in Registry Maintenance. SAP supplies service providers. Within a service provider, you can create any number of element types to make this group more specific. Each element type belongs to exactly one service provider and sets the parameters for the service provider. To insert an element in Records Management, you need to select the appropriate element type. This also ensures that the correct service provider is called.

Contractor or organization whose work supplies a business need for an enterprise.

A host providing portal services to multiple customers in a single portal infrastructure (in the context of a multitenant portal scenario).

The provider of the cash pooling service. It can be either a bank or the company itself. Service providers define cash pools and perform cash concentration based on cash pools.

Groups of persons and institutions that provide services related to health insurance. Examples: Physicians Dentists Medical/surgical supplies stores Hospitals Care services

An actor that provides services to customers. The service provider owns a catalog of master data to price services.

The force element for which a service offer is defined.

Company that offers one or more of the following services (service types): Energy generation Energy sales Energy supply Energy transmission Energy distribution Meter installation and maintenance Meter reading A service provider is uniquely allocated to a service type.

A server in the machine model that provides tags or services. You can use the service provider to model the following: Data source You can connect an external data source, such as an OPC UA server, and define all the properties of the data source here. The data source provides tags. External server (type: OPC UA server) You can connect an external OPC UA server that provides methods. External server (type: Web server) You can connect an external Web server that provides services. Internal server (type: OPC UA server) You can define an OPC UA server that is created automatically in the PCo. You can define the methods here in the configuration of the service provider. Internal server (type: Web server) You can define a PCo Web server that is created automatically in PCo. You can define the Web services here in the configuration of the service. Execution in SAP Manufacturing Cloud You can connect a Digital Manufacturing Execution service offered in the SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud to the machi

Company that offers aid in development, distribution, implementation, operational operation, or optimization of software.

The party responsible for carrying out additional tasks related to a particular business document or items in a business document. Examples of the tasks include customs clearance for a freight booking, cleaning containers, and checking container seals.

The technical framework used to build multi-stage multi-path workflow approval workflow processes in Access Control.