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Procedure documentation Maintaining Subitems Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

You can create subitems for each Progress Tracking object and define and monitor as many events as you like for each subitem.

Procedure

Branching to the Subitem Overview

To branch to the overview of subitems select the Progress Tracking object in the Component/Schedule Line Overview and choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Subitems.

If a Progress Tracking object already has subitems, the above icon is entered in the SItm column and you can also choose the icon in the column to branch to the overview of subitems.

Creating a Subitem

The subitems screen looks similar to the main Progress Tracking screen. The top half contains the subitems and the bottom half, the events for the current subitem.

  1. To create a subitem choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Append Row.
  2. Enter an ID for the subitem in the subitem field. The other field (Event Maintained) is filled by the system automatically as soon as you assign events to the subitem.

Creating Events for Subitems

You can define and track as many events as you like for each subitem.

When you first create an event or transfer events from the superior Progress Tracking object, This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Inifial Event Overview appears in the Event Maintained field in the upper half of the screen. As soon as you manually edit or schedule these events, This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Event Overview appears in the Event Maintained field.

Returning to the Main Screen

Choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Main Items in the subitems overview toolbar to return to the main screen, or This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Back.

Customer-Specific Subitem Data

Customer-specific subitem data can be defined individually by customers by using the customer includes CI_SUBOBJ_CP from table TCP_SUBOBJ for network components, or CI_SUBOBJ_PO from table TPO_SUBOBJ for schedule lines.

Using a further Progress Tracking BAdI, the individual fields in the ALV Grid field catalog can be influenced and controlled. Another BAdI is available that allows you to create and update subitems when Progress Tracking is called up for the first time.

For more information about BAdIs, see Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) for Progress Tracking.

 

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