SAP ABAP IMG Activity OFTV_INT_COS_TP_05 (Create Additional Links for Initial Screen of Travel Manager)
Hierarchy
EA-HRGXX (Software Component) Sub component EA-HRGXX of EA-HR
   FI-TV-COS (Application Component) Travel Expenses
     PTRA_ADDON (Package) Travel Management Add-On
IMG Activity
ID OFTV_INT_COS_TP_05 Create Additional Links for Initial Screen of Travel Manager  
Transaction Code S_PH0_48000412   Links for Travel Manager 
Created on 20000128    
Customizing Attributes OFTV_INT_COS_TP_05   Create additional links for initial screen of travel manager 
Customizing Activity OFTV_INT_COS_TP_05   Create additional links for initial screen of travel manager 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name OFTV_INT_COS_TP_05    

In this step you can create enterprise-specific links to be displayed in the initial screen of the Travel manager . Using these links you can provide the user with all kinds of information, for example:

  • Enterprise-internal travel policies
  • Internet links to travel/weather information or news sites
  • Mail addresses of contact persons
  • Company logo and other graphics

The link types 'Reference and EMail address are displayed on the initial screen of the Travel Manager as links. Objects with the link type Graphic are shown in the top right of the screen.

Requirements

Standard settings

There are currently 24 graphics stored in the Business Document Navigator for Travel Management that are displayed randomly in the initial screen of the Travel Manager.

This set of graphics are only displayed if you have not created any objects of link type Graphic in the IMG activity Create additional links for initial screen of travel manager.

The object keys of the graphics in the Business Document Navigator begin with TRV.

If you store your own graphics in the activity ZH> Create additional references for the initial screen of the travel manager , the preset Travel Management Graphics are no longer displayed.

You may, for example, want to create your own new graphics using this Customizing activity if the same company logo should always be displayed.

Example:

If you want the graphic "mylogo" to be displayed in the travel manager, you must create the object "mylogo" in BDN before you can use it in the Customzing activity Create additional links for the initial travel manager screen.

Recommendation

Note regarding link type Graphic:

You can create graphics in the Business Document Navigator and then use these graphics in the Customizing activity Create additional links for the initial travel manager screen. These graphics will then be display randomly.

Alternatively you can swap individual graphics with graphics from the existing set of maximum 24 graphics. If you want to use the complete set of 24 pictures, you do not have to enter these in the Customizing activity as above.

For more information about creating and storing graphics in the Business Document Navigator , see Edit Graphics in the BDN.

Activities

  1. Choose a Trip provision variant .
  2. In the Reference/Link type<//> field, choose whether you want to create a reference, graphic or mail address as a link.
  3. Assign a sequential number for each link. If you store more than one reference and mail address, they will be displayed according to the numbering in the initial screen of the Travel manager . If you create more than one graphic, they will be displayed randomly in the upper righthand section of the initial screen.
  4. In the URL screen enter the address of the document for which you want to create a link:

  • Reference: File path or web address
  • Mail address: Normal address of an Email recipient
  • Graphic: Object key from the Business Document Navigator (see section Prerequisites)

  1. In the URL text field enter the text that is to be displayed for the relevant link in the interface. This field has no function for graphics. It does not have to be filled, because no text appears in the interface for graphics.

Further notes

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 261   Define Screen Control 
Mandatory / Optional 2   Optional activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 2   Non-critical 
Country-Dependency A   Valid for all countries 
Assigned Application Components
Documentation Object Class Documentation Object Name Current line number Application Component Application Component Name
SIMG OFTV_INT_COS_TP_05 0 HLA0009705 Travel Management 
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type C   Customizing Object 
Assigned objects
Customizing Object Object Type Transaction Code Sub-object Do not Summarize Skip Subset Dialog Box Description for multiple selections
V_T706WWW V - View SM30 Create additional links for initial screen of travel manager 
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20000128 
SAP Release Created in 46C