You create event scenarios and the standard events that they contain in Customizing for Progress Tracking, by choosing Project System ® Progress ® Progress Tracking ® Define Standard Events / Define Event Scenarios or Materials Management ® Purchasing ® Purchase Order ® Progress Tracking ® Define Standard Events / Define Event Scenarios.

The event scenario allows you to collect together those events that you use over and over again, and assign them to your Progress Tracking objects all at once, rather than having to create each event individually.

Among other things, you can:

• Designate an event in a scenario as the start event for automatic scheduling

• Enter a time interval in days for each pair of events, which is taken into account during the scheduling of event scenarios. You can also set a reference indicator for the time interval, which prevents it from being changed in Progress Tracking.
• Define whether the event relationship is taken into account during forwards and/or backwards scheduling

You assign the event scenario to your Progress Tracking objects manually in the Component/Schedule Line Overview, or you can create a default assignment in Customizing via the material group or using a customer enhancement.

When you assign a scenario, the standard events defined for the scenario in Customizing for Progress Tracking are automatically assigned to the Progress Tracking object. If you overwrite an existing scenario manually or by using mass change, then those events that were already assigned to the Progress Tracking object and are not part of the new scenario are automatically deleted. This applies both to standard events and manually assigned events.

To assign an event scenario manually:

1. Select the Scenario field of the Progress Tracking object in question
2. Choose one of the scenarios from the list of scenarios that you have created in Customizing for Progress Tracking

The events for the Progress Tracking object can now be seen in the Events Overview in the bottom half of the screen.

You can create a default scenario for a material group in Customizing for Progress Tracking under Assign Default Scenario to Material Group. This scenario is automatically used for the material group but can be overwritten manually, as described above, or by a customer enhancement.

When you first assign a scenario to a Progress Tracking object, the corresponding entry in the upper list is flagged with Initial Event Overview. This shows clearly that events have been assigned to an entry during the process of the current transaction run, and that these events have neither been scheduled nor manually processed. By filtering the list of Progress Tracking objects by this icon, you can easily select all entries whose newly assigned events have not yet been processed.

As soon as you have scheduled or manually processed the events for a Progress Tracking object and updated the screen by choosing Refresh or carrying out another transaction, the icon changes to Event Overview.