BPR content in solar01

What determines the content available in BPR in the solution manager?Even if I do some changes in scope/system landscape in solar_project_admin, the BPR view remains the same. Currently I could see two views of BPR content .(One at the process level and the other at process step level).Is this the entire content available? Does the content change if different satellite systems are brought into scope? Any additional configuration/settings with regard to content visible in BPR?

Hi Prasad,
the BPR content is determined by the software component ST-ICO. It contains all sort of objects types that are also available in Solar01. When you start the BPR selection only those object types are visible that fit to the selected object type in solar01; e. g. to see all scenario in BPR you need to selected the node "Business Scenarios" in solar01. The system landscape of your project is used to highlight those elements of the BPR that fit to your landscape. Other elements are shown as gray, but it is possible to select them. In this case, you will get a proposal to enhance your landscape accordingly.
Best regards,
Michael

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