Process Chain Maintenance 
Process Chain Maintenance
Use
Process chain management automatically runs in BW.
Prerequisites
If you want to include a load process in a process chain, you need to have already created an InfoPackage in the Scheduler.
Functions
You can check and monitor the chains in the process chain maintenance.
You can call up process chain maintenance using the 
pushbutton in the Modeling, Monitoring and Reporting Agent AWB function areas toolbar.
You can also maintain a process chain directly out of the maintenance dialog for a supported process. You then create a variant for the latest process, assign a description for the process chain, maintain additional associated process variants, and then create the links.
In the left-hand area of the screen you will find a navigation area that you can use to call up navigation trees for process chains () and process types (
), as well as logs for process chains (
). The navigation trees 
InfoSources and 
Data Targets are available for the simple insertion of InfoPackages and processes for data targets.
In the right-hand area of the screen, the current view of the process chain maintenance is displayed. Different views, which you get by using the Go to menu, facilitate chain management. Define the process chain and schedule individual processes in the 
Plan View. You can use drag and drop to include the processes to be scheduled in the chain, beginning with the general start process. You can also then create links. Before you activate the chain, check for errors in the 
Check View. When you activate the process chain, start the chain run according to the start process selections. You can call up the process monitor and display the logs for a process chain run in the Log View.
By using the 
Legend for a process chain maintenance view, you can call up information regarding the status of the processes and links.
If you select the symbol Process Chains, you always arrive in the plan view of the process chain maintenance.
Additional Functions in Process Chain Maintenance
Context Menu
If you select a process or a link by left-clicking the mouse, you can call up different functions by using the context menu (right-click mouse). The functions offered by using the context menu depend on whether you are in the plan, checking, or log view and whether there any process chains are already running. You can find additional information regarding the respective functions in the sections Creating Process Chains and Process Chain Log Display.
Print and Save
By using the Process Chain menu, you have the option to save or print the process chain as a picture.
View Menu Functions
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Rotate |
With this function you can switch between vertical and horizontal views. |
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Navigator On/Off |
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. |
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Enlarge |
With this function you enlarge your process chain view by about ten percent. |
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Reduce |
With this function you reduce your process chain view by about ten percent. |
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Adjust |
With this function you adjust the process chain view to the size of the right-hand screen area. |
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Detail View On/Off |
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 from the worklist that was saved in the variant are listed, for example, when updating PSA information for the data loading process and the data target. A collective 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. |
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Remove from Display |
With this function you remove a process chain from display. If you only had one chain in the display, then the existing process chains for transferring into the maintenance view are offered. |
Displaying Additional Process Chains
Furthermore, you can display additional chains for the current process chain in the right-hand area of the screen for the process chain maintenance. You can move these from the process chain tree into the right-hand area of the screen by using Drag&Drop.
If you link 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 with each action which chain you want to choose for the action. For example, if you have displayed several chains and want to remove one chain from the view and are executing the function, you are asked to choose the chains that need to be removed.
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.