
This is a series of blogs about the Reference Guide of SAP Sourcing. In this first blog, the focus will be on the Class Reference and the different views in the Class reference. There will be upcoming blogs about the different workbooks and mail templates.
The Reference Guide, often referred to as the “RG”, provides very useful technical information particularly when you are planning to do any
type of configuration. The Reference Guide is accessible from the top of right-hand side of the page. It is important to note that the Reference Guide link is only visible to users that have the appropriate permissions.
The Reference Materials is a section of the Reference Guide which is most commonly used for different page and toolbar customizations, scripting, tokens and other things. It contains the:
The RG is typically not used by the Business User but more by System Administrators, Query Developers and Scripting and Workflow Developers. In order to make sure that not every user can do modifications via Reference Guide, the access is restricted through Security Profiles.
NOTE: The Reference Guide is context-sensitive which means you will get different data, tables, etc. depending on where the Reference Guide is started from e.g. when launching the “RG” from a Master Agreement the user will see information related to Master Agreement when starting it from a Project, the user will see information related to Project.
The Class Reference is the single source of truth in the application to find the Class ID and the different class numbers for the different display names. As an example searching for “Projects” will give you all information on the Class “Project” on the header of the page:
The most commonly used class references are listed below, these can be used for e.g. queries and other things, it is important to note however that Class Name is case-sensitive i.e. when using it for a custom query make sure to consider the spelling.
Object | Class ID | Class Name |
---|---|---|
Project | 1100 | projects.projects |
RFx | 900 | rfx.RFXDoc |
Auction | 800 | doc.auction.auctionevent |
Master Agreement | 1004 | contracts.Contract |
Sub Agreement | 1003 | contracts.Agreement |
Supplier | 607 | masterdata.Vendor |
Value List Value | 616 | masterdata.ValueListValue |
The Class reference page offers the user different views which can be used for different purposes and will be described in more detail below:
NOTE: Navigation Alt+Left Arrow will take you to previous page. Alt+Right Arrow takes you forward to the next page. Depending on the browser in use, you can check the shortcuts online (same for Firefox, Chrome).
Stay tuned for upcoming blog posts....
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