Updated 8/11/2009

I'm very sorry to announce that the August 2009 meeting of the CWG Midwest Regional  Chapter has been cancelled. We did not get enough registrations to justify holding the meeting. We will still be having a small Networking event later in the day\evening for those that can attend..

We hope to return to more productive meetings in the very near future.

Your CWG Midwest Chapter leadership team

Funny thing happened on the way to the data....

There wasn't enough of it...

I know, a picture tells a thousand stories...And is worth a thousand words.. But take a peek at my profile picture. What does it tell you about me? Everything you need to know (certainly more than I want you to know :-) )???

Why no, it doesn't tell the whole story...It takes metadata to do that..

Hi there,

This maybe handy for some of you out there.  Every now and then the client will require more tabs and / or buttons than what SAP provide.  I think you can have 10 tabs and 15 buttons as standard.

But there are some SAP Notes that take through the process to allow for more.  I am not a techie, so I will list the notes that are applicable.  We have done this recently in a ECC6 system, but the same applies I think to other versions.

Some of you have made use of the free tool we have made available to extract your VC models and upload them to the CWG sandbox as described at http://www.configuration-workgroup.com/node/263. If you happen to be using IPC and have created an IPC knowledge base for your model, you can also  import the IPC knowledge base and turn it back into VC master data on the sandbox. Does this sound like magic? Read on then...

I got several inquiries about using IPC on the CWG sandbox so a blog on this topic is long overdue. Using the IPC UI instead of the CU50 is actually quite easy, just follow these steps:

1. Either run transaction SE38 and report RCUIPCSWITCH or use PMEVC to set the "IPC switch" for your KMAT. Please be careful and only set this switch to "VC in production, IPC in test" first as you can always go back. Please use the "IPC Only"setting only if you know what you're doing and only on your own KMATs (as it can not be undone).

Andreas Kraemer had a very interesting talk about improvements to the IPC at the Berlin conference and he also threw in a few "VC goodies" like the ability to use the PMEVC editor within the CU01/02 and CU21/22 transactions. I have implemented this on the CWG sandbox so that we can help SAP test this out more fully, here is how it looks:

Hello everyone, I have been getting inquiries whether CWG could also host a CRM sandbox - not every company has access to CRM and a lot of the CWG activity, including the conference program, revolves around CRM.

SAP has been extremely supportive of the CWG and Marin Ukalovic has done wonders securing the original ERP license for us. A CRM sandbox however won't happen unless we can muster wide support for it and document use scenarios which would benefit CWG and SAP.

Yes, we were at it again...The latest meeting of the Midwest Regional Chapter was held on Monday May 4 at the Haworth facility in Holland, Michigan.

Gotta give credit where it's due, that Haworth facility is a wonderful place!! Light, open and spacious, the new headquarters building looks to be a very nice place to work, and good on the environment as well!! Kudo's to the folks at Haworth for a wonderful job!!

Hi there,

Some of you may have been to my 'other' blog.