Sunday, 12 August 2018

Business Functions in SAP

Important Tcodes for Business Functions:
SFW5 - activate/deactivate Business Functions 
SFW BROWSER - investigate, which enhancements are related to the Business Function in question 
SFW1 - create switches (only customer enhancements) 
SFW2 - create Business Functions (only customer enhancements) 
SFW3 - create Business Function Sets for industry solutions (only customer enhancements) 

We need to activate Business Functions in Development system and then need to transport over the Landscape:
Activating Business functions:
1. Start Tcode: SFW5
2. Select Business Functions which needs to activate
3. Chose Activate Changes. One batch job will trigger for the actiation. Job name is: SFW_ACTIVATION_SF0X
4. Then Capture in a Transport through out the landscape.
5. for logs, Goto -> Switch Framework Logs in SFW5.
For any reason the activation has cancelled, you can restart the activation selecting: System Settings --> Activate Restart. Business Functions can activate in any client, it will be activated Globally. Please make sure if any prerequisites needs to perform for any Business Function before activation.
Important SAP Notes:
SAP Note 1324838 Mapping of Business Functions to Technical Usages 
SAP Note 1524246 Relationship of licenses and business functions 
SAP Note 337623  Customizing after installation or upgrade 
SAP Note 868771  Copy Special Customizing 

SAP Note 908007  Special functions in Switch Framework / SFW5