Overview & Introduction

In October 2012, RIG team members BabuGanesh V and Dhimant Patel delivered a webinarOverview of Syclo and Agentry Architecture. The session covers an overview of Syclo, Agentry Apps and the Agentry Architecture (note: the replay is not working on Mac).

Don't know how to get started? Check this Implementation Methodology for Agentry Apps. It highlights some of implementation best practices for Agentry based Mobile app development, which have proven successful across industries. It's applicable for Agentry 5.x & 6.x.

Mobile Apps for Agentry- delivered by SAP

• SAP Work Manager 6.0 Landing Page
  Manju Venkatesha has created a great page covering release 6.0 of SAP Work Manager, including features, prerequisites, link to release notes and more. And extend featured list is published separately. Check this discussion on certification, too.
• SAP Work Manager 5.3 Extended Feature List
  This documents provides an overview of the standard processes as well as the mobilized process covered by the mobile app SAP Work Manager. It provides a detailed view into the different use cases and drills down into work-order and notificationprocessing, time recording and meter management.
• Status Mapping in Work Manager 5.3
  This document describes steps to map mobile status to system or user status, when a work order or notification transaction is posted to SAP.
• Work Order and Notification Assignment Types
  This document outlines the work assignment process for the SAP Work Manager 5.3
  Work orders and notifications originate from the SAP application where they are planned and then assigned to the technician by different assignment types.
• Transaction Codes and BAPI's
  This document lists all the SAP equivalent PM Transaction Codes and BAPI's used by SAP Work Manager 5.3.

• SAP Inventory Manager 3.2: Extended Feature List
  This documents explains in detail the features that are included in the SAP Inventory Manager mobile app, depicting the processes and showing the distinction between the standard process in SAP ERP and the mobilized part of this process: Goods Receipt, Goods Issue, Transfers, Reversal and Physical Inventory.
• SAP CRM Service Manager 3.1: Extended Feature List
  This document includes an overview of the SAP standard processes and the mobilized processes. It then deep-dives into the process and the technical object structure for both service orders and stock components.
• SAP Rounds Manager 2.3
  This document explains in detail the features that are included in the SAP Rounds Manager mobile app. It provides an overview of the standard and the mobilized process and describes in detail the rounds process.
• SAP Sales Manager 2.5
  Sirish explains various customization options available with SAP Sales Manager 2.5. The document provides a brief overview of the different ways to achieve the customization in SAP Sales Manager 2.5

• How-To: Create Custom Exchange Objects for Agentry based Mobile Apps
  This document takes you through the process, step-by-step, of creating Custom Exchange Objects for you SAP Mobile App running on Agentry.
• Agentry Client Branding
  Instructions to create a branded iOS or Android client installer for an application developed with Agentry. Agentry 6.X, SMP 2.3
• Agentry System Landscape and Publish Mechanism
  This document describes steps involved in publishing Agentry changes, and moving Agentry changes across system landscapes. It also highlights Agentry Server Landscape in a typical Mobile project. Agentry 5.x & 6.x.

Mobile Apps for Agentry - Building your own

Two excellent How-to Guides: Build an Agentry based mobile app from scratch, connecting to an SAP back-end.

Both Guides were developed along with the SMP 2.3 Developer Workshop Series that we ran last summer:

• Part 1
  This How-to guide will show you step by step how to create a very simple mobile app based on Agentry, which will retrieve flight information from an SAP ERP back-end and display it on the mobile device or Agentry test environment.
  This guide walks you through the installation of the needed components, creation of the Agentry application and the necessary steps needed to perform in the SAP back-end system as well.
• Part 2
  The How-to guide is adding more complexity to the previously built Agentry based mobile app, walking you through transactions, data tables, complex table and how to deploy the mobile app on the SAP Mobile Platform 2.3.

And more great guides:

• Configuration Practices for Agentry Based Mobile Apps
  This document suggests naming conventions for objects created in the Agentry Editor. Application developers are strongly encouraged to follow these conventions to optimize program maintainability, design assistance and cross-app consistency. Agentry 5.x & 6.x
• Design Approach for Agentry SAP Projects
  This document provides an overview of the approach to design Agentry Objects, complex tables and cata tables while designing Mobile application. Agentry 6.x.
• Setup Mobile Application Development Environment
  This document provides step-by-step instructions to create your own mobile app based on SAP Work Manager 5.x. This allows you to develop and configure app in your own workspace

Syclo Exchange Framework

• FahmiCheikhrouhou has posted a new PDF document on enabling Delta Queries using Syclo Exchange Framework and NW Gateway.
  Jirong Wang co-authored.

Viewing PDFs in Agentry

• Bill Froelich  has created a new blog Viewing PDFs in Agentry on Android including the code to implement.

SAP Mobile Platform 3.0 - Configuring your Agentry Apps

SAP Mobile Platform 3.0 introduces a new level of integration of Agentry Apps.

This short video shows you how to register and configure your Agentry App with the SMP 3.0 Admin Console.

Learn more about SMP 3.0.

Troubleshooting Agentry

Agentry technology has made its way into the SAP Mobile Platform, and we have covered Agentry Troubleshooting topics extensively in the SMP 2.3 webinar series. To be consistent with our product roadmap, we placed the Agentry Troubleshooting as part of the SMP 2.3 onTopic page. You'll find links, recordings and much more!

Additional Reads

Documentation

• AgentryServer documentation is included in the SMP 2.3 documentation
• Syclo User required: Documentation Home Page and Syclo Resource Center - Knowledge Base

SCN - Discussions

• Use SCN Discussions to ask questions, help others, or just stay up-to-date of what moves the community

Training

• SAP Agentry- Essentials (MOB 300)
• SAP Work Manager for SAP Foundation (MOB 310)
• SAP Work Manager for IBM Maximo (MOB 320)

Follow any of these folks to be notified on new, great content on Agentry:

Mark Pe,BabuGanesh V,Alexandra Linde-Dunmire,ManjuVenkatesha,Lisa Haag, Helena Gonzalez, Jason Latko, Steve Streeter, Chandra Ayyagari