Release Notes for SAP NetWeaver MDM GDS 2.1
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Table of Contents
Release Notes for SAP NetWeaver MDM GDS 2.1 ... 6
Logon (Enhanced) ... 7
Trade Item Management (Enhanced) ... 8
Publication (Enhanced) ... 10
Trade Partner Management (Enhanced) ... 11
Application Administration (Enhanced) ... 12
Price Management (Enhanced) ... 14
Compliance with SA2 Worldsync (New) ... 15
German Translation (New) ... 17
Web Services (New) ... 18
Release Notes for SAP NetWeaver MDM GDS 2.1
SAP NetWeaver MDM global data synchronization (GDS) 2.1 contains new functions and enhancements. Some functions have been changed or removed. These updates are summarized in the following release notes.
Features
The following functions have been enhanced:
Logon
Trade Item Management Publication
Trade Partner Management Application Administration The following functions are new:
Price Management
Compliance with SA2 Worldsync German Translation
Web Services
More Information
For more information, see SAP Library for GDS 2.1 on SAP Help Portal at
http://help.sap.com SAP for Industries SAP for Consumer Products SAP MDM GDS 2.1 .
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Logon (Enhanced)
Technical Data
Product Version GDS 2.1
Country Relevance Valid for all countries The logon function has been enhanced with the following features:
Instead of typing your user name, you can also select it from a dropdown list of available users.
When you change your password, the new password cannot contain the old one.
If the system locks your user thus preventing you logging on, another user with the Admin role can unlock it from within the GDS Console. For more information, see the Application Administration [Page 12] release note.
Effects on Configuration
If you want to use the dropdown list of available users, the
gds.logon.enableUserListDropDown property must be set to true in the application properties of GDS application in SAP NetWeaver Administrator.
For more information, see the Editing the Application Properties section of the installation guide.
Trade Item Management (Enhanced)
Technical Data
Product Version GDS 2.1
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
The enhancements of the item management function involve the workflow and the item maintenance.
Workflow
The workflow function has been enhanced with the following features:
When you launch a workflow for a selected trade item, the workflow job ID appears on the Trade Item Details and the Workflow screens. To find a workflow task related to a trade item, you can filter workflow tasks by workflow job ID.
You can delete multiple selected workflow jobs simultaneously.
Trade Item Maintenance
The trade item maintenance function has been enhanced with the following features:
You can simultaneously create multiple trade items with the same GTIN and
information provider for different target markets by entering multiple target markets on the Add or Duplicate Trade Item screen.
You can search for trade items by new criteria. The drill-down search field options have been enhanced with the following new fields:
o Link Status (Links) o Party (Item Publications)
o Publication State (Item Publications) o Publication Type (Item Publications)
o Trade Partner Response (Item Publications)
If you have personalized your drill-down search options or column setup by adding or removing fields, you can restore the default fields (that the administrator has
maintained under UI Configuration) by choosing the new Restore to Default button.
On the Trade Item Maintenance screen, the Register button has been renamed as Send Registration, and the Correct button has been renamed as Send Modification.
For internal purposes, you can attach an image to each trade item on the Trade Item Details screen. As opposed to other trade item data, you cannot publish images to
Release Notes for SAP NetWeaver MDM GDS 2.1 9 If you have additional validations not contained in the external data pool, you can send a trade item for registration or modification even if the validation failed by choosing the new Force to Continue button on the Validate screen.
If the validation of trade items fails, you can display the validation error messages in a spreadsheet by choosing the new Export button on the Validate screen.
The Revalidate button on the Validate screen has been removed.
If a trade item (record) remains locked because another user's previous editing session has ended abnormally, you can unlock the trade item. With the new Unlock Records operation assigned to your role, you can unlock selected trade items by choosing the new Unlock Record button on the Trade Item Maintenance screen.
The Trade Item Comparison screen only displays the fields that contain different values for the compared trade items. The Remove Field(s) and the Show All Fields buttons have been removed.
You can delete trade items if the following prerequisites are met:
o The trade item has the status Unregistered or Registration Error.
o The trade item is not locked by being checked out.
o The trade item is not used in a hierarchy, workflow, catalog, or price component.
The new Create Catalog button enables you to publish selected trade items to assigned trade partners directly without using an external data pool. For more information about catalog maintenance, see thePublication [Page 10] release note.
The trade item maintenance function is affected if you use SA2 Wordsync as an external data pool. For more information, see theCompliance with SA2 Worldsync [Page 15] release note.
Publication (Enhanced)
Technical Data
Product Version GDS 2.1
Country Relevance Valid for all countries The publication function has been enhanced with the following features:
You can automatically publish registered trade items to trade partners and trade partner groups with the same trade markets assigned. Automatic publication can consider value restrictions by trade partners and trade partner groups so that only trade items with the specified values are automatically published to them. For more information, see theTrade Partner Management [Page 11] release note.
You can create catalogs to publish selected trade items to assigned trade partners directly without using an external data pool. The catalog maintenance function enables you to modify, send, and delete existing catalogs.
If you publish trade items by partner and you select a trade partner that is already selected as a trade partner group member, the system publishes the trade items to this trade partner only once as to a trade partner group member.
The republication operation is affected if you use SA2 Wordsync as an external data pool. For more information, see theCompliance with SA2 Worldsync [Page 15]
release note.
Effects on Data Transfer
If you want to publish items by catalog, you have to maintain the Manual Export Address for the affected trade partners. For more information, see theTrade Partner Management [Page 11] release note.
Effects on Configuration
For more information, see the following:
Editing the Application Properties section of the installation guide
Configuring Automatic Publication section of the configuration documentation
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Trade Partner Management (Enhanced)
Technical Data
Product Version GDS 2.1
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
The trade partner management function has been enhanced with the following features:
You can assign one or more target markets to trade partners and trade partner groups. After the assignment, you can only publish to them trade items with the same target markets.
You can select trade partners and trade partner groups with target market assignments for automatic publication by selecting the Automatic Publication checkbox. If you enable automatic publication for a trade partner or trade partner group, you can also define value restrictions so that only trade items with the specified values are automatically published to them.
The trade partner data has been enhanced with the Manual Export Address field. In this field, you can enter an e-mail or FTP address to which you want to send trade items directly without using an external data pool. You can collect these trade items in catalogs and publish them to the manual export address.
Effects on Existing Data
If you want to use the new features with existing trade partners, you have to maintain their data accordingly. If you do not assign your existing trade partners to target markets, you cannot publish any trade items to them.
More Information
For more information, see thePublication [Page 10] release note.
Application Administration (Enhanced)
Technical Data
Product Version GDS 2.1
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
The enhancements of the application administration function involve the user interface (UI) configuration, the user and role management, and the process log.
UI Configuration
You can maintain names of user-defined tabs, field groups, and fields in multiple languages.
The system displays the names in the logon language if they are maintained in that language.
If the names are not maintained in the logon language, the system displays them in the default language (that is, English).
User and Role Management
The user and role management function has been enhanced with the following features:
The new Support role provides read-only access for support purposes. The role has all the screens, but none of the operations assigned to it.
The following operation has been renamed as follows:
o Modify Item as Item Editing
o Modify Item Global Values as Item Global Values Editing o Item Correction as Item Modification
With the Admin role, you can now unlock users and thus allow their logon to the GDS Console. For more information, see theLogon [Page 7] release note.
With the Admin role, you can maintain value-based restrictions. Value restrictions defined for a role ensure that users with this role can perform selected operations only on trade items with the specified field values. For example, if you select the operation Item Visibility and specify Germany as the value for the field Target Market for a role, users with this role can only display trade items the target market of which is Germany.
When a user has multiple roles assigned and each individual role has a set of value restrictions for a certain operation, the user inherits a combination of these individual value restrictions combined with an OR logical operator. If you specify value
restrictions on multiple fields, you can select a logical operator (AND or OR) to determine their relation. Value restrictions can be defined on the following operations:
o Item Visibility: only the AND logical operator is allowed
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o Launch Workflow
o Publish Price Components: only the AND logical operator is allowed
You can assign the new Unlock Records operation to users to enable them to unlock trade items that are locked by other users.
If users have personalized their drill down search options or column setup by adding or removing fields, you can restore the default fields (that you have maintained under UI configuration) for selected users by choosing the Restore Search Fields or Restore Result Fields button.
System tabs can be edited to support local language
In the portal mode, the Generate and Reset Password buttons have been removed because of trusted connection user handling.
Process Log
The process log function has been enhanced with the following features:
In the process log, you can search for trade items by GTIN, information provider, or target market.
The search result table displays the trade items involved in the logged messages.
With the new Validate button, you can send one or more selected trade items belonging to a message for validation.
The new Delete All Entries button enables you to clear the search results by removing all displayed messages.
In the process log, you can have an overview about the price synchronization import process. For more information, see thePrice Management [Page 14] release note.
Effects on Configuration
For more information about the configuration of process log, see the Process Log Configuration section of the configuration documentation.
Price Management (Enhanced)
Technical Data
Product Version GDS 2.1
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
You can use the price management function to maintain and synchronize price data with retailers. With price management, you can reduce the number of invoice errors by automating the process of supplying price data. Price management is not a negotiation tool and does not replace the current negotiation process.
Price management fully conforms to the standard GS1 GDSN price synchronization and strictly follows the GS1 requirements.
With price management, you can import price data from a back-end system and synchronize it with retail trade partners through an external data pool (1Sync, SA2 Worldsync, or other).
You can create, change, and delete relationships between information providers and trade partners. You can also create, change, and delete the following price components:
Price types Price conditions
You can create, change, activate, and deactivate ID generation sequences for the creation of new price conditions and price types.
Price management offers you the following price synchronization features:
Initial price synchronization Correcting price synchronization
Changing by refreshing price synchronization Deleting price synchronization
Discontinuing price synchronization
Effects on Data Transfer
Messages to or from the data pool are compliant with the GS1 data pool message formats and message choreography.
Effects on System Administration
To make the creation of new price types or price conditions possible, a valid ID generation sequence is to be created and activated.
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Compliance with SA2 Worldsync (New)
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Product Version GDS 2.1
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
With GDS 2.0, you can use 1Sync 6.3 or higher as an external data pool for global data synchronization. As of release 2.1, GDS also supports connectivity to the data pool of SA2 Woldsync 2.3 or higher.
To better suite the terminology of both data pools, the Correct button has been renamed as Send Modification on the Trade Item Maintenance screen. When sending out a modification for SA2 Worldsync, you have to choose either the Change or the Correct operation at the end of modification initialization.
Similarly, the following operations have been renamed as follows:
Modify Item as Item Editing
Modify Item Global Values as Item Global Values Editing Item Correction as Item Modification
If you are using SA2 Worldsync instead of 1Sync as an external data pool, the following differences apply:
The Hierarchy Management screen does not display the following data:
o Link owner o Link status
o Registration status
o Link error messages if the linking of a child trade item has failed You can only unlink trade items if the Admin role is assigned to your user. The
Remove button on the Hierarchy Management screen is only active for administrators.
You are not asked for confirmation before you remove an unregistered child trade item with link status Waiting Link.
The Resend and Reset status buttons on the Hierarchy Management screen are not displayed.
Since there is no republication operation defined for SA2, the republication operation is not available on publication-related screens.
Effects on Existing Data
Since there is no separate link process, the link statuses are set in parallel with the registration statuses during the registration process.
Since there is no global data concept at SA2 Worldsync, the global registration status is not set. As a consequence, in case of global data modification, all trade items belonging to the same global data are set to Modified registration status.
Effects on Data Transfer
Messages to or from the data pool are compliant to the SA2 Worldsync data pool message formats and message choreography.
Effects on Configuration
For more information, see the Setting Up Data Exchange with SA2 Worldsync Data Pool section of the configuration documentation.
More Information
For more information, seehttp://www.sa2worldsync.com/.
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German Translation (New)
Technical Data
Product Version GDS 2.1
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
Besides the default English version, the application is available in German, with the exception of the following content:
Data from the Master Data management (MDM) repository, for example, status names
Java dictionary content, for example, menu item names
In portal mode, the application language is determined by the language of the portal user in the following way:
If it is set to a supported language (English or German), you can use the application in the selected language.
If it is set to any other language that is not supported, you can use the application in the default English language.
In standalone mode, consider the generic language-setting rules of Web Dynpro for Java applications. The application language is determined by the language of the browser in the following way:
If it is set to a supported language (English or German), you can use the application in the selected language.
If it is set to any other language that is not supported, the application language is determined by the language of the operating system in the following way:
o If it is set to a supported language (English or German), you can use the application in the selected language.
o If it is set to any other language that is not supported, you can use the application in the default English language.
More Information
For more information, see the SAP Note1451816.
Web Services (New)
Technical Data
Product Version GDS 2.1
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
You can use the Web services to integrate your existing applications with GDS without using the Console.
The following Web services are available:
TradeItemQuery
You can use this Web service to find one or more trade items that exist in the GDS repository and retrieve their details.
TradeItemValidation
You can use this Web service to validate one or more trade items that exist in the GDS repository.
TradeItemPublish
You can use this Web service to publish, republish, or unpublish one or more trade items together with their linked child trade items.
TradePartnerQuery
You can use this Web service to find one or more trade partners that exist in the GDS repository and retrieve their details.
Effects on Configuration
For more information, see the Security Configuration of GDS Web Services section of the configuration documentation.
