Activating

After you have created Validations , you establish when and which of the validations are checked during the data entry or planning. Activation of validations also occurs in Customizing.

On the initial screen of the validation maintenance choose  Validation Activate for Data entry or Planning. A table appears in which you make entries for the various data entry layouts or planning layouts, and where you can assign a single record validation and/or a matrix validation to each layout. If a validation field does not exist in the layout, the system issues a warning. You can also assign a validation rule directly when maintaining the sender structure. (For general information on data entry, see Transaction Data ).

Checking data during data entry or planning

After you have entered data in a data entry layout or planning layout, choose  Transaction data Post . or  Planning Post. At this time the validations you have activated for the layout are run. With a single record validation, only the new and changed data records are checked. With a matrix validation, however, all records are checked.

If the data does not correspond to one of the validation rules, the message created for it appears:

During the data entry or planning you can check the validation by choosing  Transaction data Validate or  Planning Validate . This way you can see the messages before saving, and possibly correct them.

Evaluating validation logs

To see the validation logs: in the EC-EIS application menu choose  Transaction data Data entry Display logs , and in the EC-BP application menu choose Plan data Transfers Validation log . On the following screen, you can limit the selection of logs. The field ext. number contains the aspect and the entry layout, for example, 001/ABCD . You can also search generically for all the logs of an aspect, by entering 001/*. .

A list of the selected logs appears. To list the messages for each log, choose  Goto Display messages .