Template project in SAP PS

hi all,
what is template project and how to create it?
waiting for reply from forum friends,
regards
dipankar

To create template projects go to CJ91 transaction & CN01 to create std networks and activities.
A template project is one which has all the possible WBS element and activity scenarios listed. The advantage is that when one creates a brand new project, he/she can copy it from the template instead of working one up from scratch. The template will be created incorporating the standard practices of the organisation.

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We are setting up a demo of global template functionalites in SM. In the template project we have created we need advice on how to go about with the following.
1) What do the attributes - global, local, harmonized etc.mean from a businesss perspective. The help documentation provided by SAP is not clear enough. Can someone share their practical expericence regarding this.
2) In the project structure created - on what criteria should the project/business team set the appropriate global attribute.
3) What is the effect of setting up of this global attributes - should any implementation projects created in the future has to refer the master template proj.
Probably I am asking quite a lot but the questions seem to be related .
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Hi Mark,
First of all, it is advised to use this functionality only if you foresee a case of 'active' rollout based projects leveraging these templates. If, a Template Project is created merely to hold an inventory of process definitions, with future usage only as a 'possibility', you need not activate the 'Global Rollout' functionality and attend to the decision making on it at a much later date, when necessity arises. This is not something mandatory to take up right upfront, unless there is a case for it.
1) In terms of practical use in project, I have rarely come across projects which have sought to use the whole range of these attributes; I have been using SolMan since May 2004 and since those days, the usual ones I have had a need to use are at extreme ends of the spectrum - Global or Initial. All those in between vary in their nuances and normally not as much missed ! In early days (SolMan 3.1, there weren't as many varieties).
With regard to the specific ways in which these vary,
[this link|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sm40/helpdata/en/45/5af1f3e5f81dece10000000a155369/content.htm] in SAP Online help is the best source to find how these attributes impact. Of course, you may have already seen this.
2) The Project Team should have one main consideration - whether to control the structure and content of a delivered scenario centrally or to allow some changes at local rollout level. Accordingly, set the attribute and pass on the same attributes to all layers below that node in one stroke (if the attribute is to remain the same for all contents underneath)
3) The effect is in 'changeability' or the flexibility to adapt the scenario borrowed from Template to suit local rollout/implementation needs. For instance, if the Global Template team has spent thousands of man hours in coming up with a Finance scenario that's Sarbanes-Oxley compliance or GRC proofed, with all local requirements already fed into the Template, it makes sense to define the Scenario or Process as 'Global' and expect all rollouts to make use of it exactly the same way.
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Hi Experts,
     I would like to know how to connect Template project and Implementation project
    in Solution maneger.   Please help.
Best regards,
   Gaito

Hey Gaito,
great. Now that you have a template project, you need to create one or more templates within the project template.
Go to tab Templates (of your Templ Proj) and activate 'Global Rollout Functionnality' to be able to use the templates.
Create a new template thanks to button create. Visibility will be set to red 'private'. You ll have to set it to visible so it becomes visible from your implementation project.
You ll see when trying to do that next message 'No scenarios/configuration structures assigned to the template XXXX'. That means that in SOLAR01 you did not define a scenario that ll be used in template you re trying to create
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your project refers to a dictionary that you haven't in the project. Besides, right click on the WD project and check all the external references to others projects. You must open the external projects pointed by your WD.
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How to compare between two versions of template project???

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We are doing some cleanup activity in our solution manager system. For this actually we have created the replica of this project from production system to a sandbox system. We can do the cleanup of this project and can transport this new project to our production system and can move on.
But the pbm we are facing now is, how do we bring in the data captured or added to the production system after we have copied it to the sandbox system?
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But the end result we got was like we got the information regarding where all there is the difference between the current version in the template project to that of the original(in our case it checked against BPR as we selected the scenarios from BPR for this template). But what we expected was a difference between two versions of the template.
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Hi Andreas,
Thanks a lot for your immediate reply.
I too had that doubt that my appraoch will not work. But wanted to get confirmation that it will not work. Also wanted to know about any other approach. Thank you for providing me with some alternative approach.
I tried the option suggested by you. But while running the comparison report for the newly copied project with the option "New Version of Original", I am getting the below error. I do agree that this approach should work. But for some reason I am getting the below error. Can you pls look into the same and help me out.
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           line                                                  102
Procedure
Restart the transaction. If the problem persists, check if a SAP note is existing for this problem. If not please send a message to the SAP hotline.
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I have defined Template Project & created Business Blueprint hierarchy for the same.
Now I need to refer the Template Project in Implementation Project.
1) How to refer Template Project in Implementaion Project ?
2) Can I get the Template Project reference in Implementation Project automatically in Scope OR do I need to do some settings ? Currently I am not able to see the Template Project in Scope.
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Refer below links. Should be useful and also I am assuming that you have created master template and you want to refer master in local implementation project.
http://scn.sap.com/community/it-management/alm/solution-manager/blog/2013/05/21/template-management-part-i
http://scn.sap.com/community/it-management/alm/solution-manager/blog/2013/05/21/template-management-part-ii
http://scn.sap.com/community/it-management/alm/solution-manager/blog/2013/05/21/template-management-part-iii
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I agree with Rahul yes very much you can consider project planning with the business transaction if above the scope User defined fields can be added.
The report are included in the Financial > Financial report > Accouting >
Transaction report by projects, General ledgerFinancial > Financial report > Accouting >
Treansaction by projects, General ledger (Click on expanded icon and select the project) , Documents journal (Click on expanded icon and select the project)
Financial > Financial report > Financials > Trail balance and Profit & Loss reports (Click on expanded icon and select the project)
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Customer Input Templates for template project

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Regarding the CIT, the following types are delivered with SAP Solution Manager 4.0:
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This information is based on SP10, however, I am not aware of any changes in earlier support packages of ST (being the software component which might possibly include such changes).
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Copying template project

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We are trying to copy our template project which holds the complete business process structure including all content and documentation in our production system, to safeguard our template project. The target project type is also a template project. If we copy the template project with transaction solar_project_admin, we cannot get into the copied template project. We receive the next error message the "process structure doesn't not exist" and SAP refers to the SOLAR_GEN_* batch job, which didn;t run correctly. If we copy the template project in our test environment we don't have any problems. Only thing is that in the source template project in the template tab of project administration, the number of templates is growing each time we do a copy template project.
It seems that it is not possible to copy templates in production and probably that is why no process structure is created in the target template project.
Does anybody come across this issue?
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Hi Srini,
If you want to copy your template project e.g. for saveguarding your template project, you can copy the template project by using the transaction solar_project_admin. It is only possible to copy template to template.
The moment you copy the template project the assigned templates will be copied because they need to be unique. The background batch job does copy these assigned templates and will name the template an unique name e.g. template1.
For copying these templates you need to open your customizing otherwise the background job cannot copy the templates.
hope this will help.
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Template project

Hi! everyboby
Can anyone tell me how to create a template project ?
I am having problem when I try to save it. I do not know what type of package I heve to type.
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Hi Xiomara,
As regards approaches to Template Project, there are primarily two:
(1) Create a Template Project with a view to share project structure and content to Rollouts or other Implementation Projects planned to be carried out from various other SolMan instances in those respective countries or business units
(2) Create a Template Project to share the structure and contents with other projects that are to be based out of the same SolMan instance
If yours is of type (2) - which most people tend to have - you dont have to worry about Packages/ Transports etc. and save the Project as Local Object.
It's an 'irreversible' decision and therefore, it's better to check with all senior members of the project team.
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Basically, type (1) is to be used mainly where a clear requirement exists - a central team is convened somewhere (e.g. Europe) representing all geographies, and would like to be the only team that keeps preparing 80% of Global Scenarios, Processes and Content and dish them out to local subsidiaries who can then 'adopt' such incremental templates in their respective SolMan instances.
Or, SAP Partner firms may opt for type (1) to create some pioneering work/content at their premises in their own SolMan and periodically 'release' such value added content to the client(s) concerned.
If you can assess your own context and make up your mind to not opt for (1) you can conveniently ignore the 'package' business and save your Template Project and all its subsequent contents in SOLAR01/02 etc. to 'Local Object' - not transportable.
Please also read SAP Note 603336 for more information on limitations of these two types of approach.
Feel free to ask for any more info; this is a favourite topic of mine and time permitting, would like to answer as much as I can !
Best regards,
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How to block copying incomplete template projects

In our business we work with template projects from where we copy (CJ20N) the operational projects.
It does happen that these template projects are ´in maintenance´ or are being defined... there is even a status field for that.
The problem is that a user is able to create a copy of an incomplete template (they are geographically spread - so they do not easily communicate between template builders + operational project mgrs) - the system does not prevent a user from doing so... and according to our friends at SAP, the system works as designed..
Has anyone of you experts seen this problem before, and how did you handle it to make sure that a user cannot copy from a template which is in maintenance?
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Hello,
you can enter a lower limit in the condition record:
Lower limit of the condition rate/amount
Indicates whether, during document processing, the system checks if manual changes fall short of the lower limit allowed for the corresponding condition record.
Use
When you maintain the scales in a condition record, the system checks whether the scale value falls below the lower limit.
Or you can use the flag 'conditon update'.
Condition update
Controls whether limit values are relevant for pricing.
E.g.: you can make the use of a particular condition record in the document dependent on a specified total value.
This total value can be specified in the condition record.
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How to migrate changed Business Scenarios from Template Project to Solution

SAP Solution Manager - How to migrate changes in Business Scenarios from Template Project to Solution?
Our Global ASAP strategy is based upon a Template Project, Implementation Project, Maintenance Project and Solution with Business Scenarios.
Changes in the Template Project for existing and new Business Sceanarios, etc. are correctly executed. Up till now we have successfully implemented our Template Project and secondly extended our Business Scenarios from 4 to 14. Our 3rd upcoming change will be changes on Business Scenarios as well. These planned changes for the Business Scenarios need to be consistent, possibly without manual intervention.
During a Proof of Concept (PoC) in our Sandbox (SXB) we have identified a possible serious problem when trying to publish these changes in Business Scenarios in the Template Project to the Solution. SAP Solution Manager (SSM) does not seem to support a scenario where Business Scenarios in the Solution can be refreshed or updated with changed Business Scenarios in the Template Project.
We have identified 2 possibillities:
1.     Manual project upgrade
1.1.     Synchronize the changes for the Template Project normally;
1.2.     Delete the changed Business Scenarios from step 1.1 in the Solution;
1.3.     Add the changed Business Scenarios from step 1.1 into the Solution.
For this scenario we foresee a big problem because all Content and Issues connected to the old Solution Business Scenarios loose their coupling with the Solution.
For the Content this may not be a real problem because the Content is also available in the Template Project.
However the Issues are loosely coupled to the Solution Scenarios and therefore need to be coupled manually to these processes.
2.     Manual changes using Maintenance Project
2.1.     Synchronize the changes for the Template Project normally;
2.2.     Publish all changes from step 2.1 in the Template Project
2.3.     Add all new Content from step 2.1 to the structure of the Maintenance Project;
2.4.     Relocate Content and Issues when the Business Scenario has been relocated.
Because SSM does not support this activity we need to delete this Business Scenario first and secondly re-create it again on the correct spot.
Our question: How has SAP done this in other customer projects?
We need to have a working solution by the end of March, 2009.
Best regards,
Peter Hendriksen

Peter,
Did you get an anwer to this question from SAP?
Rgds,
Eamonn.

Atomatic Update Back from Rollout to Template Project

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Is it possible to Update the Template project back from the Roll out project .
The Compare and Adjust functionality doesn't help in this case .
Can you please let me know if there are any notes to applied to get this functionality .
I am in SAP EHP 1 Solution Manager 7.0 .
ST - Release 400 Level 022
Thanks and Regards,
Saravana

Hi ,
Is it possible to Update the Template project back from the Roll out project .
The Compare and Adjust functionality doesn't help in this case .
Can you please let me know if there are any notes to applied to get this functionality .
I am in SAP EHP 1 Solution Manager 7.0 .
ST - Release 400 Level 022
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