Activate Floorplan manager for Tm Customizing

This blog post is about activating floorplan manager. Its destined to people who work with SAP transportation management.

Whenever, you need to change the layout in fiori, for example of user interfaces on the transportation cockpit, you may need to activate this ability to customize the screen. Usually, I have asked Basis to do it and recently I did it together with them. So, I thought I share the info, so that others can easily do it too.

Parameter in user profile

To be able to show configurable areas on a fiori user ui, you have to set your user parameter as follows:

This extract of the sap online help explains the background and how to reach the user profile:

Activate the service

Then, you go to transaction SICF and Select virtual host as default_host as follows:

Then, you switch to edit mode (using the Pen):

Filter Criteria

as filter criteria, you enter the following:

Show configurable areas

Then, you go back to the UI and “show configurable areas”.

This is what is needed to be able to configure the fiori user interface (“Screens”).

How you customize the TM Transportation Cockpit User interface or other interfaces in Fiori is described in this youtube video:

Further info about the floor plan manager in the official sap help can be found here:

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_NETWEAVER_731_BW_ABAP/9c91640bf34c49d8bad6bc560bedd707/9f95467bbefc4a808fffeba4c5177258.html?version=7.31.23&locale=de-DE

Further of my content can be found here:

https://people.sap.com/phunger#content

Regards

Petra Hunger