Frequency Restrictions for a Process

Use

You use this function to determine how often a process can be run for the same object, for example, the same employee.

Features

You can determine the following restrictions:

  • The process can be run any number of times.

  • The process cannot be run if it was run one or more times within a certain period that is before the desired process start.

  • The process cannot be run if it was run one or more times within a certain period that contains the desired process start. The period is calculated as an interval that regularly repeats itself as of a set date.

    Example Example

    You set the interval as four weeks, the start date as January 1, 2007, and the frequency as 1 Time . You want to run the process on March 6. March 6 is in the third four-week interval since January 1. If this process was already run in this interval, for example on February 28, it cannot be run on March 6.

    End of the example.

  • The process cannot be run if it was run one or more times within a certain period from a fixed start date.

Activities

In the object hierarchy area, choose Start of the navigation path <Process Name> Next navigation step <Validity Period> Next navigation step Process Start Next navigation step FrequencyRestriction End of the navigation path , and make the required settings.

To transfer the entries that you made in a field to the area Result of the Selected Setting , choose Enter .