Node extensibility in S/4 HANA Customer Management

[former_member221497]

Good day,

In CRM, we had AET to create extension tables on most of the business objects.

In S/4HANA, at the moment we have the Custom Fields and Logic App and the Custom Business Object app, but we don't have node extensibility on standard objects.

For those that have migrated from CRM to S/4HANA CM, if you had extensions (on Business Partner or Transactions), how have you dealt with it ?

I have thought of using the CBO with an association to the main object, but the problem with the CBO is that it will not enhance / generate the genil model. Since the Web UI remains our primary UI, this solution will probably not work for us.

Please share your experience if you had to deal with similar scenario on your projects.

Cheers,

H

[former_member798443]

Hi Helder,

Did you get any solution for this issue. I am currently facing same issue where I have to add extension to Business transaction and show it as assignment block on UI.

Thanks

[alscholl2]

Customer fields and logic app only enhances header objects and is still (2023) suboptimal implemented into one-order-api and BOL framework.

Same with custom business objects, which additionally misses some vital functions (like UI generation) at on-prem version.

AET for businesspartner works fine with rebuilding it via AXTREG like crm7.

AET for transactions only supports table enhancements at orderadm_h and orderadm_i - If you try to implement table enhancements at different objects (e.g., BTPartner) and debug the enhancement generation, you will be stopped at several spots where SAP hardcoded supresses this kind of enhancement 🙂

You can pass theses points and implement a custom handler class via spro - it works.

..just like crm5 or 6 :D

would be easier for SAP to copy crm7 just 1:1 and don’t touch it. regarding several OSS and support notes lately, it seems like the whole CRM division of SAP left the company and customer management/service is now run by ERP.

ah btw:

if you use AET table enhancement with 1:1 relation (Formularview), you can add fields just as single added before, with instant usability in the UI config. but for standard search and reporting tools you must adjust the cds afterwards.

[former_member221497]

Hi Amol.

Depending on your version of S/4 HANA, AET is still available to extend business transactions but not officially supported. Not sure if it's still available in 2020 version .

Another option is to use a custom business object, which can be linked to your business transaction. It does have some drawbacks. Your CBO is not deleted or archived when the main object is for exemple. Unfortunately, We never implemented so I can only share the information I had found at the time.

Cheers,

H

[former_member798443]

Thank you Helder for quick response. We are on 2020 version. WEBUI does show AET option however I am not sure how it will add new table as child of CRMS4D_SERV_H table. I will explore both AET and CBO option.