Layout is not defaulted in ESS My Expenses

Question

Hi,
I have gone to transaction POWL_QUERY to maintain the layout variant
for FITV_POWL_TRIPS_EXP. After I saved the variant to be the default
variant for all, I logged into ESS and try to access the query.
However, the newly created variant layout is not defaulted.
I have also executed POWL_D01 to refresh the cache.
Anyone encountered this issue before or tried changing the default variant?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hello folks,
I hope you don't mind me jumping in to rant a bit, since this thread concerns two of my favourit pet hates, the Admin Personalization Layer and POWL
I am not suprised it doesnt work and not sure any OSS note will solve the problem... I think it is because POWLs for FI-TV are "strangely" developed
This, exactly.
1/ Launch your fitv_powl_trips web dynpro application from se80
2/ Add &sap-config-mode=X at the end of the URL path and type enter.
3/ Use option buton to create your ivew as you did it in the layout (store it in a customizing TR).
4/ Launch POWL_D01 and it should be working now.
@ Matthieu: I object. IMO the approach Yvonne described in her opening post is the cleaner one. Doesn't matter much though, since the technical outcome of Yvonne's approach and yours is identical, only the 'functional point of entry' differs. However, implicit WDA Personalization that is supposed to be valid system wide and for all users should never never never be issued via the Admin Personalization Layer, i.e. &sap-config-mode=X, because:
the Layer is overall superfluous and unstable
it is a User Specific customiziation, even if the user scope is "A"
Transporting Admin Personalization is a mess and scarcely works stable
@ Yvonne: What you should do now to clean things up is:
1. Delete your Admin Personalizations you've created via WDA WD_ANALYZE_CONFIG_USER and Transport this Deletion (and hope the Transport works, otherwise delete the Personalizations on each subsequent system manually)
2. Repeat what you wrote you did in your opening post, i.e. TA POWL_QUERY, Button Layout-Variant, but then before doing anything, in the URL change the parameter from "&sap-config-mode=X" to "&sap-config-mode=config". You'll notice that orange-like banner above the application changing from "Customizing-Mode" to "Configuration-Mode". Now repeat doing your adjustments, save them, make a Transport, enter the Layout IDs in the query (Note: enter them via the F4-help, not manually) and finally run POWL_D01.
The outcome is an in-built component configuration that can be transported cleanly, isn't unstable and even works pretty well with the horrible POWL-technology. To verify that you've created configurations of the correct type, check WD_ANALYZE_CONFIG_COMP, your configurations should be here. Subsequently check that the entries are NOT in WD_ANALYZE_CONFIG_USER, if they are, things went wrong again.
Hope that helps
Cheers, Lukas