How To Setup - Business Process Model Connector For SAP Signavio Solutions - 202305
How To Setup - Business Process Model Connector For SAP Signavio Solutions - 202305
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SAP Cloud Connector to be Logon to beta sub- Open the system Start a new definition from
installed on a virtual machine account provided to you configuration screen configuration screen
at customer site Subscribe to Application Follow the UI to provide Follow the UI to provide
– Help documentation for the relevant details for the the relevant details for the
Logon to the application
SCC can be found here SAP Signavio Process SAP Solution Manager
using link shown against
– Sizing information for SCC subscription Manager system system
can be found here, medium Create the system Create the system
size recommended definition and check for definition and check for
SCC to be connected to beta success message success message
cloud account by a customer In SCC, define Cloud to
SCC admin user on-premise permissions
for the SAP Solution
Manager system and add
permission for the 2 URI
paths provided
From SAP BTP sub-account, the users will be able to see a tile with Connector application. The user needs to navigate to ‘Service
Marketplace’ area from the main menu of SAP BTP Cockpit where they will be able to find a tile with the application name ‘Connector
SaaS App Staging.
Select ‘Integration’
Click on Service
as the Solution
Marketplace
Category
After successful subscription, please launch the connector application, using the same dropdown menu on the application tile.
Select Go to
Application to
launch it
The user will be taken
to the main menu of
the application
Select ‘Add System’ when a new SAP Solution Manager or SAP Signavio Process
Manager system needs to be connected.
System Name – Can be found from SAP Signavio Process Manager ‘Help Workspace information’
Data Center – Please select the data center where your Signavio workspace
Workspace Tenant ID – is found in menu path Help Workspace information (as above)
System Role – used to distinguish between Test and Productive workspaces for documentation purpose.
Description – free text, describing your selected workspace. Keep it short. It will be visible in the Connected system list to help
the user to navigate between multiple Signavio workspaces.
Click on Add
Systems to create a
new system in the
Connected Systems
area
Service User /Password – are details of the SAP Solution Manager system Service
user. If you don’t have one, please ask your system administrator to set it up and ask
them to allocate the roles described at this link.
Certificate Type – select “Trusted” if your SolMan system has an officially signed system certificate installed. Otherwise select “Untrusted”
Key information:
Host name is used as the logical
hostname when define the trust
relationship
Port number is used for both the
virtual & logical port number in the
trust definition
Virtual URL is used for the Virtual
host name in the trust definition
Synchronisation Project is used SAP Signavio Dictionary SAP Signavio and SAP Preview of
to configure synchronisation Categories and their Solution Manager synchronisation settings
settings between SAP Signavio objects types (Activities, attributes are mapped allows to ensure that all
and SAP Solution Manager IT Systems) are mapped using the following selected data elements
systems, that are defined in the to corresponding object groups: are defined correctly
connector types of SAP Solution o Mandatory (required for Saving the Project will
Manager consistent
It allows to specify preferred trigger creation of new
SAP Solution Manager Solution, synchronisation), Dictionary Categories and
Branch, define settings for o Recommended (already attributes in SAP Signavio
Dictionary Categories and predefined by the It will be done prior to data
attributes mapping connector) transfer and based on the
It’s independent from the o Custom (all relevant settings provided by the
directions of data transfer standard and customer user
Every Project has a unique ID attributes)
and controls only one
combination of systems
Please note, synchronizing the same SAP Signavio Process Manager workspace to an additional SAP Solution Manager
solution requires a new project.
Synchronisation of updates of the same workspace to the same solution must be done in one project that was set up for
initial synchronisation.
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Synchronisation Project: Configure main settings
For every new synch Project, please provide general information and details of the required systems to be synchronised as shown below.
Project Name is a free text field used Provide a short free text description of the
to identify different projects project purpose.
Please note, only one Dictionary category can be mapped. It is not possible to map Dictionary sub-category. All Activity object types used in synchronisation
must be stored in the mapped Dictionary Category, if synchronisation direction is SAP Signavio to SAP Solution Manager. All Process Steps from the Process
Step Library and it’s lower level folders and sub-folders will be imported into the mapped category, if synchronisation direction is SAP Solution Manager to SAP
Signavio.
Customized – available for mapping of the existing in SAP Signavio and SAP Solution Manager standard or customer
attributes, for the supported attribute types.
Please note, if attribute types that are not supported mapped in the SAP Solution Manager to SAP Signavio:
synchronisation project in error, the project activation may fail. Boolean -> Boolean
Single-line text -> Single-line text
Multi-line text -> Multi-line text
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Synchronisation Project: map Customized attributes
Synchronisation Project needs In the ‘Run Upon completion of initial Synchronisation will be
to be activated before it can Synchronisation Project’ synchronization from SAP executed in stages and
be executed and used in one of the active Projects Solution Manager, SAP the user will be able to
synchronisation run. must be selected. Signavio Process Manager is see the progress of each
Activation of synchronisation The system will displayed the leading system for stage.
Project will created required connected systems of the managing changes to objects
Once synchronisation is
Dictionaries in SAP Signavio. project, to ensure the right and their mapped attribute
complete, the user will be
settings were selected. values.
The same project can be able to check the logs and
edited for mapping attributes Selection of content will be synchronisation history.
and executed multiple times. automatically controlled by
specified direction of
synchronisation and relevant
System content will be
available.
For SAP Solution Manager to
SAP Signavio direction
selection of the scope is
available to narrow down
process content even further.
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Activate Synchronisation Project
Activation of Synchronisation Project can be done from the following pages of Synchronisation Process menu. Activation
will take some minutes to check SAP Signavio system settings and create Dictionaries and attributes according to mapping
provided by the user in the Project. If Dictionaries and attributes were previously created, the system will reuse them and
will not duplicate the entries.
Activate from
Synchronisation Project
summary page
Please note, only Active Sync Projects can be used to run synchronisation.
Click on Run
synchronisation
projects to execute
synchronisation
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Run Synchronisation: Select Project and directions
Select required setting in the Run synchronisation project.
If run synchronisation is
triggered from the main tile Select synchronisation
Run Synchronisation directions and press Start
project, then the project
need to be selected from the
drop down menu
- break down large process structures into smaller parts to work around limitations on data load exceeding 512 MB in size of extracted data file
Synchronisation
Synchronisation Progress and Phases
Status
Synchronisation Logs
Synchronisation Log
Messages
Timestamp of
synchronisation
Number of processed objects
You might be able to see some errors in processing of the Diagrams, however the whole status of synchronisation will be set to Complete. Diagram often have missing
Process Steps (e.g. it’s blank), missing XML that wasn’t generated in SAP Solution Manager when the diagram was imported/created or deleted Process Steps (e.g.
deleted from the structure, but not the diagram. Due to a low impact impact on consistency of the synchronisation, the synchronisation is considered as ‘Complete’.
Go to Synchronisation
Projects, click on the Go back to the list of
three dots and select projects
Sync History
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