New Fields on Service Ticket

Question

Hi Folks
We are currently working on CRM 4.0. We have a new requirement where I need to add new fields to the Service Ticket. I added the new fields using EEWB and it works perfectly on SAP GUI. Now I need to add those new fields on CRM Webclient also.
On the Service Ticket screen on webclient, we have a pusbutton. Upon clicking that button, a new pop up page will open which was a page created using 'Pages with Flow Logic'. Can you please explain the process to add my custom fields on this pop up page which were created using EEWB?
I tried to create Context Node in that Page. But I couldn't create it.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks
Hari

Answer 1

Hi Hari,
If you want to process ticket fields within the CRM 4.0 IC WebClient, I do not think it is a good idea to use an extra page with flow-logic. I suppose that the server will execute the extra page with flow-logic in a new HTTP session: which means that the changes that you do in memory in one session are not available to the other one, until you actually save changes to the DB. Only way to exchange data between IC WebClient and page with flow-logic would be on the client side, via javascript. Additionally, I would not recommend using popups, unless you manage to get them modal (i.e. they stay on top). Otherwise they tend to disappear behind the IC WebClient.
I would suggest to remain within SAP's MVC design-pattern: Either you manage to show those new fields directly on SrvtHead.htm, and then it is just a matter to make the context node available, on which you have added the EEWB fields, or you create a new view to display only those fields separately (for example Z1_CRM_IC/SrvTSurvey) ; but this means some definition work in the runtime repository.
You need to perform declaration of new objects in the runtime repository:
- create a new page fragment (in my example: Z1_CRM_IC/SrvTSurvey) that you add in a redefinition of CRM_IC_All_Viewsets_wo_BUPA_and_Main.xml
e.g.
<ViewSet id="Z1_CRM_IC/SrvTSurveySet">
  <ViewArea id="SrvTSurvey" views="Z1_CRM_IC/SrvTSurvey"/>
</ViewSet>
- add your view to redefinition of StdWorkareaOccupation.xml
e.g.
ServiceView StdResp
                        CmgASearch CmgADetail CmgAAttrMore CmgAFullView CmgAFullLog
                        CmgAHierarchy CmgAClassification CaseANavigation
                        PaymMainViewSet PaymAssignViewSet ChangeHistorySet
                        MktIOViewSet PartOAViewSet Z1_CRM_IC/SrvTSurveySet
Then you need to define an object link in runtime repository, to enable navigation from SrvTHead to your own view:
- add new navigation link to redefined CRM_IC_All_NavLinks.xml.
e.g.
<NavigationalLink name="SrvTHeadToSrvTSurvey">
     <Source viewRef="SrvTHead" outboundPlugRef="outboundPlug"/>
     <Targets>
          <Target viewRef="Z1_CRM_IC/SrvTSurvey" inboundPlugRef="inboundPlug"/>
     </Targets>
</NavigationalLink>
Navigation links from SrvTHead to your view and vice-versa are invoked from the DO_HANDLE_EVENT method of the respective view controller.
Hope you can use those ideas
Best regards
Walter