This blog post is part of a series on SAP Digital Manufacturing new POD 2.0 framework, the new generation of SAP Digital Manufacturing worker UIs.

New POD 2.0 Framework

1. The New Generation of SAP Digital Manufacturing Worker UIs
2. Template-Based Design Instead of POD Types
3. Visual WYSIWYG Designer
4. POD 2.0 Hands-on, Flexible Layout Capabilities, Part 1
5. POD 2.0 Hands-on, Flexible Layout Capabilities, Part 2
6. Custom UI Dialogs and Calling Production Processes
7. Dynamic PODs, How to Dynamically Show, Hide, Enable, and Disable UI Elements
8. Other Business Capabilities Enabled by POD 2.0
9. Interactive Value Journey (IVJ)
10. POD Notifications
11. Tips and Tricks
12. Accessing PODs 2.0

Accessing PODs 2.0

PODs created using the brand-new POD 2.0 framework can be accessed via:

• Launch PODs app
• Bookmark URLs
• Desktop Shortcuts

For Launch PODs app, 1st assign PODs 2.0 to Users in Manage PODs 2.0:

Then, use Launch PODs app to launch them:

For Bookmark URLs, just bookmark the POD 2.0 URL, and launch it from the bookmark:

For example, in Google Chrome:

For Desktop Shortcuts:

1. On your computer, open Google Chrome.
2. Go to the POD 2.0 you want to create a shortcut for.
3. At the top right, select More and then Cast, save, and share and then Create shortcut.
4. From the dialog that appears:
5. Name: Select the default name for the shortcut or rename it.
6. Select Create.

A Desktop shortcut is created from where you can launch it.

Or simply ‘Run’ (click the ‘Play’ button) directly from Manage PODs 2.0 app.

Have you tried POD 2.0 already? Let me know in the comments!

Stay tuned for more! Thanks,
Manoel Costa