Documentation: SOLAR01/02 or Solution Directory?

[Former Member]

Dear all:

We are implementing SOLMAN to use change request management and a place to store the documentation, for our live system. Ive been reading a lot the last month trying to understand all the strange concepts about solman, and implement it in the best way, until 2 days ago I thought that documentation should be stored within SOLAR01/02, but yesterday I was reading a blog and it says documentation should be stored at Solution Directory, for a live system like mine.

Anyone could shed light on this?

Hope you can help me guys, I really need help on this!

Best regards,

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you guys for all your help! It was very helpfull.

Let me add one last question, we were checking both functionalities; solar01 versus solution directory and we find it more usefull for our company the SOLAR01 approach. Is there any problem if we dont use the solution diretory and instead SOLAR01/02 for our daily basis work with documentation?

Thank you very much!

Federico.

[RajeevP · Accepted solution]

Hi,

There isn't any problem in going ahead with solar01/02. In fact, I have seen most of the people using this than solman_directory as generally we require documents related to our projects, not with our solutions.

Rajeev

[volker_vongloeden · Accepted solution]

Hi Federico,

no, you shouldn't encounter reall problems. But some functionalities like Business Process Monitoring require processes modelled in the Solution Directory. If you need it then you can copy processes from the project to the Solution Directory.

Best Regards

Volker

[raguraman_c]

Hi,

The documentation that you do in your SOLAR01/SOLAR02 actually gets stored in Solution Directory (We can call it a repository)

Check these links.

http://www.wilsonmar.com/sap_solution_manager.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sm32/helpdata/en/5a/c08802c3f446ed968db8cecce8ac35/content.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sm32/helpdata/en/11/1c2441ce87a22be10000000a1550b0/content.htm

Hope this helps.

Feel free to revert back.

-=-Ragu

[RajeevP]

Hi,

I believe you are aware that we can manage projects through solution manager. During each and every phase of projects, you will require different types of documents which you can store in the corresponding pojects. This documentation upload is done through solar01/02.

Please refer for details:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sm32/helpdata/en/c0/6454512a6411d5b37b0050dade3beb/frameset.htm

You have one more option for document management which is related with your solution. Corresponding to each solution, you can manage the the documents related with that. This you can do through the transaction solman_directory. The document management feature is available only in u2018Organizational Unitsu2019, u2018Master Datau2019 and u2018Business Scenariosu2019.

Rajeev