Business Service Portal

The Business Service page has been converted to a portal, leveraging a more flexible and extendable user interface metaphor. The portal organization makes it easier to review the business service's configuration and includes the following key features:

  • The schema is generated upon creation of the business service. If the service is based on a data explorer zone, the schema is generated based on the zone configuration, thus streamlining and making it easier to introduce a new data explorer service.
  • Navigation to the related zone for data explorer services.
  • A more comprehensive list of references to the business service and its schema.
  • A less cluttered sidebar by moving all business service tips and schema generation functionality to the new portal.
  • Ability to test the service.

NOTE: This requires security access to application service Test a Service (F1SCRTEST) in addition to the ability to add a script which is the existing alternative way for testing any service.

Converting the Business Service page to a portal allows for a better user experience for implementers creating, reviewing, and testing business services. There is no impact to existing extensions with this enhancement.

Steps to Enable

To enable implementers that already have security rights to create scripts to also test their scripts using the new Test action, provide them with access to application service Test a Service (F1SCRTEST).

Tips And Considerations

A new business object (BO) for Business Service and a new Determine BO algorithm linked to the Maintenance Object were introduced. The base BO includes all the user interface behavior designed for the new portal. If your implementation has introduced your own CM business object and CM Determine BO algorithm, you should review your business object's configuration and align it with the base business object.

Upgrade scripts ensure that users with Read access to the existing application service will have access to the new application service associated with the new portal. The table lists the existing and new application services.

Object New Application Service Access Added to any User Groups with this Application Service / Read Access
Business Service Portal F1BUSSVC FWLTBSVP

Note that any existing bookmarks for this page will take you to the previous version of the page. You need to take the following actions to move the bookmark to the new page:

  1. Click the bookmark. Take note of the Business Service.
  2. Navigate to the Business Service portal via the menu.
  3. Search for and select the Business Service you noted from your bookmark.
  4. Delete the existing bookmark from the Bookmark dashboard zone.
  5. Click the Bookmark page action button to add a bookmark for this record for the new page.

Key Resources