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Hello, SAP users!
We’re excited to share the latest updates to the SAP Profitability and Performance Management Cloud – Universal Model (SAP PaPM Cloud UM). These new features are designed to make processes smoother, improve decision-making, and boost performance.
Whether you're a long-time user or just getting started, these updates bring valuable enhancements to help you achieve better results.
If you want to catch up on previous updates, check out our past blog posts here - https://community.sap.com/t5/tag/PaPMCloudUMWhatsNew/tg-p.
Let’s take a look at what’s new this month!
Model
Manage Environment
User can now choose how to deactivate environment:
- Option #1 (Current deactivation process): All flags are set to “Yes”;
- Option #2 (New): All flags are set to “No”;
- Option #3 (New): Only the “Delete all dependent data” flag is set to “Yes”, while all other flags remain “No”.
Users can now deactivate environments with All flags set to No. This is a new behavior of Deactivation process. After doing so, environment’s state is set to ‘Inactive’. However, this deactivated environment using All options set to “No” cannot be removed. Not until all dependencies are removed. To remove all dependencies, user needs to reactivate the environment, then deactivate it with All flags set to ‘Yes!
In addition, one more scenario is also possible: to deactivate environment with the delete data only set to “Yes” and all other flags are set to “No”. In this case, environment state is set to ‘Not Current’. Also, this deactivated environment cannot be removed! However, to set the environment to inactive, user can set all flags to ‘Yes’ and then user can already remove the environment.
This change provides more flexibility to modeling —especially during planning cycles, testing scenarios, or model shifts.
Manage Environment - Model Screen
Navigation to the Show Screen is now possible through the hierarchy list, so you no longer need to access it only from the Network tab. This link can be found in the Hierarchy table and will only be visible if the environment is activated.
Additionally, a context menu is available in the Hierarchy. Simply right-click to execute actions such as Run, Show Details or Attributes of a function, Show Data, Copy, and Delete. This provides an alternative way to streamline your workflow.
Manage Model View
A new validation has been implemented for Model View field configuration if there’s a relation/deep nested field is used or defined as an Input Field in the Fields section.
The Input Field is being defined in the Fields section of Model View as this field is coming from the input that can be processed further. It means that the user can further perform aggregation, exclude it from the result, map it to another field or perform a value selection.
If a relation/deep nested field is added but no selection is defined/maintained, it cannot be excluded (Exclude checkbox) as it doesn’t make any data enrichment. This field does not originate from the Model View's Input Function at first, and thus not required to be added in the Field configuration if no additional data enrichment is needed.
With this, if this scenario is being performed during configuration, upon saving the function, a validation message will prompt stating “Excluding Nested field is redundant. Please remove the entry”.
This was introduced to avoid system failures, for example case when activation of Environment that contains Model View Type: Projection which uses field from Inherited Relation that has configuration Exclude = Yes (checked) results to failed.
Manage Model Calculation
From previous enhancements of Manage Calculations Functions the Edit button was introduced on the Assignment section of Rules. This button aids the user to easily maintain a formula in the editor as it provides suggestions of keywords. During the initial release of the functionality, the user waits for some time before the suggested words appear.
A major aspect of the enhancement is the increased response time of the system and after this, words now appear immediately while the user types a string in the formula editor.
Report
Manage Reports - Tile Element
Inspired by the role-based experience of SAP Fiori Launchpad, this update brings to reports a familiar tile-based element. Whether you're surfacing critical data, linking to important content, or simply organizing information visually—Tile Elements help you do it with elegance and precision.
Creating and Editing the Tile
- New button labeled “Insert Tile Element” is available in Page Edit Mode;
- Clicking the “Insert Tile Element” button opens “Create Tile Element” dialog. The dialog allows the user to configure the tile with: title, description and icon (all optional).
Upon creation, user can:
- edit the tile by adding/changing name & description, that is will be displayed in the tile;
- add text and/or any report element (show element, data element, rule element, reference) inside the tile;
- add reference;
- re-size the tile;
- delete the tile.
Tile Display Logic when reference is assigned:
- If a semantic link reference is assigned, the tile is displayed on Report only if the referenced page is visible to the user. (if tile is referenced to the page user does not have access to, the tile will not be visible for the user),
- Clicking the tile navigates the user to the assigned reference target.
User 1 Accessing Reports (tile is visible)
User 2 Accessing Reports (tile is not visible)
That’s it for now!
I hope this new feature and enhancement makes your work with SAP PaPM UM better. Stay tuned for more “What’s New” post. Share this blogpost with your colleagues and friends. Thank you!
