Method for verifying user changeable configuration settings and selectively modifying non-supported setting values to supported setting values in user selected and non-selected content units

US8438379B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Roland Hoff · Walldorf, DE
• Robert Bäthe · Heidelberg, DE
• Jan Krieg · Dielheim, DE
• Viktor Folmer · Fulda, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 24, 2010
• Grant date: May 7, 2013
• Expiry date: Apr 12, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/06
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A value of a configuration setting contained within a selected content unit of an application may be used as input for a configuration check algorithm to calculate a control parameter output. The algorithm may include logical operators, conditional statements, mathematical logic, and mathematical functions. The algorithm may be used to verify the correctness of the value. Different control parameter output values may be associated with different options in the automated configuration verification program. The options may include, but are not limited to, modifying an unsupported configuration setting value to a supported value, updating configuration setting values in non-selected content units, exiting the automated program and switching to a manual configuration setting change mode, and automatically updating a configuration setting value to a supported value without further intervention.