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Plan and Check View Functions

Use
You can call the functions available in the plan and check views of process chain maintenance from the menu (or the toolbar in process chain maintenance), or in the context menu of the corresponding process. In addition, you can use drag and drop to transfer extra process chains to the plan view and call other process chains by double-clicking them.

Features
Functions in the Process Chain Maintenance Menu Menu Process Chain Menu Option Create Description You specify a technical name and a description for the process chain and a dialog box appears. In the dialog box, you create the start process for the process chain. You use this function to copy the process chain you have selected, along with its references to process variants, and save it under a new name and description. If necessary, swap process variants with the variants needed in the new chain or delete or enhance the variants. You use this function to save the current status of the process chain. You use this function to activate the process chain. You can only activate the chain if the system did not find errors during the check. You use this function to reset a process chain that has been changed and saved, back to its status when it was last activated. You use this function to display the BI transport connection. You can transport the process chain and the dependent objects. See also: Transporting BI Objects Attributes You use this function to display or determine various attributes for process chains. See also: Display/Maintenance of Process Chain Attributes Print Save as image You use this function to print the network graphic for a process chain. You use this function to save the network graphic for a process chain as a jpg. file.

Copy

Save Activate

Reset to active version

Transport

Menu View Menu Option Description

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Rotate Navigator On/Off

You use this function to switch between vertical and horizontal views. With this function you hide or display a movable navigator in the right-hand area of the process chain maintenance screen. It gives you an overview of your process chain that is being processed. It also enables you to enlarge or reduce the view by moving the mouse. With this function you enlarge your process chain view by about ten percent. With this function you reduce your process chain view by about ten percent. With this function you adjust the process chain view to the size of the right-hand screen area. With this function you get to the detailed view for process chain maintenance. With this function you get to the detailed view for process chain maintenance. Important elements of the worklist saved in the variant are also listed. For example, when updating the PSA, information about the data loading process and data target is listed. A collection process is displayed several times in the detailed view. The multiple display helps you to visualize that a job is started for each process and for each event triggered by the process. Using this Detail View Off function, you get to the simplified view of the process chain maintenance. Only process types and variant descriptions are displayed for a process here.

Enlarge Reduce Adjust Detail View On/Off

Remove from Display

With this function you remove a process chain from display.

Menu Execute Menu Option Schedule Description You use this function to schedule and execute the process chain in the background, in accordance with the settings in the start process. You use this function to delete the scheduling for the process chain. The chain is not executed. You use this function to schedule and execute the process in dialog mode, instead of in the background. The processes in the chain are processed serially using a dialog process. The system writes a log entry for each process. You can display the chain run in the log view. The separate processes themselves are processed serially, if this is possible. If this is not possible (depending on the process type), synchronous processing is terminated at this

Remove from scheduling Execute synchronously

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point and is only resumed when the other process has finished, and this has been communicated to the process chain. We recommend that you only execute simple chains with small datasets synchronously. In this case, the performance gain of executing in dialog (you do not have to schedule a background job) may outweigh the performance loss due to parallelization. Multiple runs can be processed in parallel, since there are no conflicts regarding the required background jobs. Execute as simulated You use this function to simulate the process chain. The system does not write log entries or process the data persistently. The process chain is displayed in the log view immediately after execution. If a process type supports this function, the context menu of the process contains the entry Simulation Result. This displays the result of the process. You use this function to debug the execution of the process chain. The process chain is executed synchronously. If the chain contains separated processes, the system waits until these processes are completed.

Execute synchronous to debugging

Menu Goto Menu Option Plan view Check view Description You use this function to switch between the display and change modes for the process chain. You use this function to switch to the plan view for the process chain. If the chain that you create does not correspond to the standard, the system displays a warning. You can ignore these warnings if you are sure that you are creating a chain that meets your requirements. Warnings do not affect how the chain operates at runtime. Your chain is checked in the check view and during activation. The system tells you if it discovers any errors. Log view You use this function to switch to the log view for the process chain. See also: Process chain log display Job Overview Back You use this function to display a new mode in the job overview (transaction SM37). You use this function to undo the last navigation step. You use Next Object to repeat the navigation step.

Menu Settings Menu Option Description

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Maintain process types

You use this function to display process type maintenance. See also: Maintenance of Process Types You use this function to display alert category maintenance (table RSPC_ALERT_CAT). See also: Send Alerts for Process Chains You use this function to determine that the system does not propose processes for the process chain. If you insert into the chain a process that is linked to additional processes, the respective process variants are generated and inserted into the process chain automatically. These variants are suggestions and can be changed, replaced or removed from the chain as required. Variant maintenance is called when the change run performs automatic insert. If you want to insert a second process of the same type in the process chain and the selection conditions of the process overlap with those of the process already inserted in the chain, the system does not generate process variants. In this case, the system does not generate additional process variants, since it cannot guarantee that this is required. If you want to specify the processes that are to be included in a chain yourself, select Do Not Suggest Processes. As a result, the system does not suggest, generate, or automatically insert any processes into the chain. This setting is user-specific.

Maintain alert categories

Default chains

Tree display/network display

You use this function to switch between a tree display and a network-graphic display for the process chain. The tree display is designed for screen reader devices.

Displaying Additional Process Chains You can also display additional chains for the current process chain in the right area of the screen in process chain maintenance. You can use drag and drop to move these from the process chain tree into the right area of the screen. If you link the processes of two chains vertically, the processes are added to a chain of another chain, and the superfluous chain is deleted. If you display several chains, the system asks you which chain you want to select every time you perform an action. For example, if you have displayed several chains and want to remove one chain from the view, the system asks you to choose the chains that need to be removed when you execute the function. If you save or activate, all the chains displayed are saved or activated respectively. Displaying Other Process Chain If you want to display another chain instead of the current process chain, select the one you want by double-clicking on the process chain tree. Context Menu If you select a process or a link by left-clicking on it, you can call up different functions by using the

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context menu (right-click mouse). The functions offered in the context menu depend on whether you are in the plan, check, or log view, and whether process chains are already running. For more information about the respective functions, see Creating Process Chains and Process Chain Log Display.

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