Automatic Creation of FFF Classes

Use

This function allows you the option of setting up the system in a way that supports the automatic creation of an FFF class. When you create a new part, you might want the system to automatically create a Form-Fit-Function (FFF) class and assign the part to it. If so, you use a workflow definition to create an FFF class, subject to the material type of the part that you create, and assign the part to that FFF class.

You can activate this workflow. This means that you no longer have to create FFF classes.

Prerequisites

You have knowledge of the WebFlow Engine and have set up workflow-specific Customizing. ( Tools → Business Workflow → Development → Utilities → Automatic Workflow Customizing .)

For more information on workflows, see WebFlow Engine (BC-BMT-WFM) .

Features

A workflow with workflow template WS80000041 ( Creation of FFF Class in Background ) creates an FFF class for a part, assigns the part to the FFF class, and sends a mail to the user who created the part.

If any errors occur, the system sends you a mail.

Workflow template WS80000041 is linked to the triggering event BUS1001006. created ( Standard Part Created ).

Activities

Defining Start Conditions

If you do not want the workflow to start every time you create a new part, you define starting conditions to determine when the workflow should start. For example, it could start when you create a particular material type, or when a particular user creates a part.

To define start conditions, from the SAP Easy Access menu, choose Tools → Business Workflow → Development → Definition Tools → Events → Event Linkages → Workflow Start Conditions.

Define start conditions for the event linkage between the triggering event BUS1001006. created and workflow template WS80000041.

Setting Initial Values

You have to define the following parameters as initial values of the workflow definition, so that the system can create an FFF class:

Material type

Industry

Description

Manufacturer part profile

To set initial values, change workflow template WS80000041 and choose Goto → Assign Initial Values .

Assign the relevant initial values to the following container elements in the workflow container:

MaterialType (default value FFFC)

IndustrySector

MaterialDescription

MPNProfile