Using the Administration Page

You administer the ERP Connector Solution Starter for Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 from an ASP.NET page that you install in the Admin center of Microsoft Office Project Web Access. For a general overview of the administration page for the HR module, see User Interface.

The following sections describe the administration page settings:

• General Settings
• Common Fields (includes the fields that you set for two or more modules)
• HR Module (for mySAP™ ERP Human Capital Management)
• Finance Projects Module (for the mySAP ERP Financials CO subsystem)
• Finance WBS Module (for the mySAP ERP Financials PS subsystem)

You can revise the administration page user interface using Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 and ASP.NET. If you use the ERP Connector functions that are supplied in the solution starter, then you must include all of the items in the following tables in the administration page.

Note  The view you see of the ERP Connector Admin page depends on changes you make for ERP Connector modules you install. For example, if you install only the HR module, you should modify the administration page to show only the general settings and the HR module settings.

General Settings

All of the modules require the general settings. Figure 1 and Table 1 show and describe the general settings.

Figure 1. General settings in the administration page

Table 1. Description of general settings

Common Fields

If your implementation of the administration page includes two or more modules that have the same field, you can place the field in a Common field(s) section to avoid having to make duplicate settings. Figure 2 and Table 2 show and describe the common field that is in the default implementation of the administration page.

If you install only the HR module, you can modify the administration page to move the SAP Resource ID label and drop-down list back to the HR module section and remove the Common Field section.

Figure 2. Common fields for multiple modules

Table 2. Common fields in the default implementation

HR Module

The HR module settings in Figure 3 are for synchronizing data from mySAP ERP HCM with Project Server. The settings include the default resource cost rates, e-mail and Windows logon account formulas, controls for activating or deactivating resources, and the path to the XML log file. Table 3 describes the settings.

Note  The HR module settings also include SAP Resource ID described in Common Fields.

Figure 3. HR module settings in the administration page

Table 3. HR module settings and controls

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<E-mail Domain> = 'example.com'
<Separator> = '.'
<Name Begin> = FirstName
<Name End> = LastName

<Logon Domain>\<Name Begin><Separator><Name End>

<Logon Domain> = 'exampledomain'
<Separator> = ''
<Name Begin> = FirstName
<Name Begin function> = FirstChar
<Name End> = Lastname
<Name End function> = Full

Finance Projects Module

Figure 4 and Table 4 show and describe the Finance Projects module settings that are required for creating projects from the internal order data that the mySAP ERP Financial CO subsystem sends to Project Server.

Figure 4. Finance Projects module settings in the administration page

Table 4. Finance Projects module settings and controls

Finance WBS Module

Figure 5 and Table 5 show and describe the Finance WBS module settings. The Finance WBS module exports work actuals from approved timesheets in Project Server to the mySAP ERP Financial CO and PS subsystems, using projects that have the CO, PS, and HR data fields.

Note  The Finance WBS module settings also include SAP Resource ID described in Common Fields.

Figure 5. Finance WBS module settings in the administration page

Table 5. Finance WBS module settings and controls