How to Contribute

Active Contributors – anyone who earns over 250 points in a single year – are valued, visible members of the SCN community. The more you contribute to the blogs, wiki, and forums, or post articles, the more you build your reputation among your peers and gain valuable knowledge along the way.

What Content Are We Looking For?

SAP Developer Network (SDN)

Whatever your development expertise, you'll find a home for it on SDN. We're interested in topics related to SAP NetWeaver and its components, composite applications, and general technology as it relates to SAP, including Java, Web services, open source platforms, and scripting languages. We focus on the most obvious to the most abstract aspects of technologies surrounding SAP. With the help of the community we continue to expand and explore every area. Learn more on Getting Started: SDN.

Business Process Expert Community (BPX)

We're interested in topics related to the tasks of a business process expert, such as modeling, process architecture and design, process-driven project management, BPM methodology, end-to-end process descriptions, and industry-specific process improvement scenarios. In addition, we welcome content describing sustainability, governance, analytics, and customer relationship management. Case studies outlining how you or your company tackled and solved a business challenge are also welcome. Learn more on Getting Started: BPX.

Business Objects Community (BOC)

In the Business Objects Community (BOC), we're interested in technical topics related to business intelligence, information management, and Business Objects products, in a variety of forums including the more common collaborative tools (blogs, wiki, articles, forums), but also sample reports or dashboards. If the information helped save you time or helped your company or customer succeed, then we'd like for you to share it with the community. Learn more on Getting Started: BOC.

University Alliances Community (UAC)

The University Alliances Community (UAC) is seeking to build a repository of faculty-developed classroom materials that will help educators from around the world incorporate SAP concepts and ERP technology successfully into their classes, as well as best practices and related research. Some examples include: student case studies, hands-on exercises, classroom presentation, a recorded demo or lecture and answers to curriculum-related questions. Faculty are invited to take an active role in contributing to our forums, wiki and blogs. Learn more on Getting Started: UAC.

How Do I Contribute?

Forums

In the forums, you can ask and answer questions, make comments, and read questions and answers from fellow SAP developers and business process experts "in the trenches." To contribute a question or a comment to a forum, simply go to the forums and start posting. (Note: Posting requires registration. If you are not registered yet, sign up here.)

See Rules of Engagement to get started.

Blogs

To become a blogger, you first create your blogger profile. To do so, go to the Create/Update Author page, fill in the form and submit it. You will be given blogging status, and will receive an email explaining the process. Once you have published a few blogs and gained experience with the online tools, you can become an expert blogger.

You might wonder what the difference is between a blog and wiki. Here's a good guide to follow: If the content will be updated, enhanced, or changed in the future, if the content provides simple (or even not so simple) instructions for doing something, then the wiki is the place to be. If you are sharing personal experience and insights — including your theories, strategies or thoughts — then the blog area is the right place.

Wiki

The wiki is designed to enhance collaboration and knowledge-sharing across multiple groups. You can browse, add, and change pages, or even rearrange, reorganize, and restructure entire sections of content. The ideal wiki content is information that can be extended or enhanced, or is subject to frequent changes. An extensive editor community already uses the wiki to edit content or collaborate on new ideas or projects.

For more information on the wiki, please see the Wiki FAQ and Getting Started with Wikis.

Code Samples (on SDN)

On SDN, we like code samples. You can contribute code samples in the SDN Code Gallery in the wiki. SDN accepts two kinds of code samples: code snippets, which are small pieces of code, and code tutorials, which are larger examples of code or even partial or almost complete applications.

Articles, Tutorials, Whitepapers, and Rich Media

For a quick overview of how to submit content using the Content Submission System, see the How to Contribute tutorial. For SDN, this category includes everything from brief articles that explain how to use certain features of the APIs, to in depth how-to documents and case studies. We also like annotated code samples that show interesting techniques, and narratives detailing how a technical problem or implementation issue was resolved.

For BPX, this category includes everything from case studies that describe how you or your company solved a particular business problem at the business process level, to brief articles that explain how to work with BPX tools, to whitepapers addressing how best to use SAP solutions for industry-specific scenarios.

For UAC, this category includes any classroom related content that may be used by other educators including case studies, exercises, presentation materials, recorded demos or podcasts, best practices and so on. UAC members are invited to submit content for the University Alliances community via email with key information about the content including: article title, creation date, author name, abstract, discipline, SAP products/tools/industry referenced, target audience, and expertise level.

To contribute an article, whitepaper, or tutorial to the SDN, BPX or Business Objects community:
• Write your article using the SCN article template.
• Save your completed file as a Microsoft Word file (.doc).
• Submit the file to the Content Submission System (site registration required).

To contribute rich media, such as a streaming videos and presentations, developer spotlights, video blogs, recorded web conferences, or podcasts, check the eLearning Submission Guidelines to learn about accepted file formats. For SDN, BPX or Business Objects community contributions you can then submit the file to the Content Submission System (site registration required). To contribute rich media files for the University Alliances community submit the files via email.