Message Functional Areas (SAP Library - Personnel Time Management (PT))

Message Functional Areas

Definition

Message functional areas contain groups of time evaluation messages. They enable you to categorize messages and manage message processing.

Use

Time evaluation can generate a large amount of messages. Sometimes the list of messages can be too long to manage. When Customizing the Time Manager’s Workplace, you can group together message types into message functional areas to suit your business requirements. You can structure how the message list is displayed and the messages are processed. Message functional areas can be created using the following criteria:

Many message types describe similar business-related situations. Grouping together message types can streamline message processing as the time administrator handles related topics at one time.
There are many types of messages requiring identical or similar processing methods, such as those concerning incorrect or missing time events. Grouping these message types together enables the time administrator to use the same steps and screens, processing these messages systematically.
Messages concerning serious errors in time evaluation and additional messages for which accurate time evaluation results are not relevant. Grouping together messages according to their priority or category enables time administrators to efficiently process errors. Time administrators can process notes and info messages later.

Message functional areas describing similar business-related situations:

Working time collisions
Deviations from the work schedule
Checking time accounts

Structure

All message types related to the message types assigned to a functional area are displayed under the corresponding message functional area in the message view. The message view is set up based on whether a processing method is assigned to a message type or a functional area.

If the message types have their own processing methods, then they are displayed under the message functional area node.

In this case, you can display all messages in one functional area or the individual messages. To do so, select a functional area or a message in the message list.

If the message functional area has a processing method, then all of the messages are summarized here.

The messages no longer appear in the message view. Always copy the entire message functional area to the message list.

You do not need to assign all of the message types to a message functional area. Some messages require such special processing methods that they can be regarded as special cases. These types are messages to not need to be assigned to a message functional area. These messages are displayed in the message view on the same hierarchy level as the message functional areas.