SAP Portfolio & Project Management (PPM)

A consultant records time against a ChaRM change document linked to a PPM project task, then opens the project and sees no time charged yet. Bug or expected?

After upgrading to SolMan 7.2, a customer wants to keep working in their existing 7.1 roadmap. What is the real state of that roadmap, and how do they actually proceed?

When using 'Copy Customizing for Project Management', why does copying the ChaRM/Requirements transaction types FIRST determine whether your task types copy at all?

Before a Microsoft Project .mpp round-trip with PPM will actually work, what must be configured beyond installing the integration — and what fails if you skip it?

You want to staff a person onto a PPM project task from the Resources tab but there's no one available to assign. What ordering step is usually skipped, and what's the actual sequence?

What single capability most distinguishes SAP PPM from an ordinary task tracker for a regulated or methodology-driven project?

When mapping a ChaRM transaction type to a PPM task type, why is configuring only ONE task type not enough, and what does the second one buy you?

A PM edits resources, dates, and effort on a PPM task that has a requirement/RfC transaction attached. What happens to the original transaction, and what's the trap?

A customer on a basic SolMan maintenance contract wants to use SAP PPM because the component is already installed. Why might they still not be entitled, and which usage is even 'standard'?

In SolMan, when do you create a 'top issue' rather than another plain issue, and what structural property distinguishes the two?

What does a project manager get automatically when a Best Practice package is imported into SolMan, and why does that change where their work starts?

You try to create a PPM project task from a ChaRM RfC and it won't let you, even though the project is still open for editing. What precondition is missing?

In Focused Build's three agile layers (target release / waves / sprints), at which layer does promotion to QA happen, and what gates it?

After setting up SAP PPM, a dynamic Fiori tile throws an error. Before touching Launchpad catalogs, what backend setup is the usual root cause and fix?

'Map task status to transaction status' in PPM — which side drives which, and what's the practical effect of getting the direction wrong?

Project Management has Implementation and Maintenance integration scenarios that both link tasks and change documents — which do you use to fold a small change into an existing project, and how do they differ in direction?

A PMO wants a cross-project view of who is allocated where and where capacity is contended. Is that Project Management or Portfolio Management, and why?

Beyond prettier reporting, what does Focused Build give you on top of standard Project Management that you'd otherwise have to build by hand?

Why does PPM Resource Planning insist you maintain resource availability before staffing, and what breaks if you skip it?