User Fields Editing

Use

You use this function to assign data fields to an operation, phase, or secondary resource. You define the usage and meaning of these data fields yourself. You can enter company-specific information or values for formula parameters that are not included in the standard system.

Prerequisites

A field key has been defined in Customizing for Master Recipes , in which the required combination of user fields is stored.

Features

By assigning a field key to an operation, phase, or secondary resource, you specify:

  • Which user fields are available in the particular object (see below)

  • Which field names or key words are used for these fields

You can then enter data in these user fields. Note that the system does not check your entries.

Types of User Fields

Depending on the field key, up to twelve data fields with various field formats are available. These include:

  • Up to four general fields for any text

You can use them to store information about people responsible, substitutes or telephone numbers, for example.

If the field description or keyword Downtime has been assigned to a text field in the field key, you can use input help and input validation for downtime elements. You can use this field to assign a downtime element to a phase. In this way, the system can directly access the relevant phases when determining downtimes, such as Set up or Tear down (see Downtime ).

  • Up to two quantity fields

You can assign additional formula parameters to the quantity fields in the field key. These formula parameters enable you to use the values of the quantity fields in the formulas of the resource to calculate processing times, capacity requirements, and costs.

In the master recipe and process order, there is also a field for the unit of each quantity field. Default values and their units that you have edited in Customizing for Formula Parameters are transferred, but you can change this data.

Caution Caution

If you have entered data in the quantity fields and then change the field key, the old values remain unchanged.

End of the caution.

  • Up to two value fields

In the master recipe and process order, there is also a field for the unit of each value field.

  • Up to two date fields

Here, you can enter internal start dates, for instance.

  • Up to two checkboxes

You can use these to indicate whether an operation is to be included in evaluations in the information system, for instance.

Activities

You enter the standard values in the detail data for operations, phases, and secondary resources on the User fields tab page.

You can access the detail data from the operation or secondary resource overview by double-clicking the corresponding phase or secondary resource.