Presentation Management
Purpose
Presentation Management is responsible for decoupling the business logic from the physical presentation of application data on a selected presentation device, allowing you to choose the way in which assigned tasks are displayed. This is of particular importance to mobile presentations, where flexibility in displaying data on the screen and adjusting transactions to changing requirements is indispensable.
Note
For more information on configuring presentation data, see the IMG for Logistics Execution
→Task & Resource Management
→Presentation Management
For a diagrammatic representation of presentation data configuration, see Presentation Data Model.
Features
Presentation Management supports the following features:
Personalized screen layout in template form (that can be exchanged) and personalized pushbutton set per transaction
You can configure screen settings according to different resource presentation devices. The display profile reflects the properties of the presentation device and defines exactly how data is displayed. You can define the following properties of a presentation device:
Screen width
Number of message lines allowed for this display profile
Maximum number of menu items to be displayed on the screen
Size of pushbuttons
Maximum number of displayed pushbuttons for the display profile
Template screen ID that is used in the display profile
List template screen ID that is used in the display profile
Personalized menu
You can define the following:
Personalized menu to be displayed when you log on to the system
Preferred menu items
The sequence in which menu items appear
Note
In Customizing for Logistics Execution
→Task & Resource Management
→Presentation Management
→ Define Menus
→ Menu Tree
, you can include external transactions (such as those used in Mobile Data Entry (LE-MOB)
as menu items by entering the external transaction in the Ext. trans.
field.
Support of different physical devices and technologies
Presentation Management supports a variety of device types and sizes, including RF character devices and RF GUI devices.
Different flow logics
You can influence the process flow, the set of logical steps that are linked by a relationship. Each set consists of a predecessor and a successor step that is triggered either:
In background mode, according to the selected function code; or
In foreground mode, by the user during their interaction with the physical screen, resulting in the execution of the respective function module.