Use

You use this function to report actual data you have entered or calculated in the PI sheet. You can start data reporting as follows:

Prerequisites

... for Executing a Signature

A process instruction in which a signature has been specified as an input value has been defined in the PI sheet (see Definition of Signatures ).

The type of signature to be used in the PI sheet has been defined in Customizing for Control Recipe Destinations . You have the following options:

In this case, you must also define passwords for the corresponding users in Customizing for Control Recipe Destinations .

To execute the signature, you may also need a maintenance authorization for the PI sheet, which is defined in the process instruction.

If several individual signatures are to be executed, you also define a signature strategy in the control recipe destination or in the process instruction.

For more information about digital signatures and the required settings, see Approval Using Digital Signatures .

Features

When you report a value from the PI sheet, the system transfers the corresponding process message to process management. Process management then sends the message to its destinations for further processing.

Which values you can report depends on how you start the function (see below). No matter how you start reporting, the system always carries out the following steps:

The system only transfers complete process messages that have not yet been reported at an earlier stage.

After you have reported the values, you can no longer change them in the PI sheet.

Reporting Data

You start this function from the PI sheet menu. The system selects all data that can be reported for the entire PI sheet. It does not check whether the process instructions have all been maintained one after another.

Executing a Signature

When you complete a process step with a signature or a digital signature, the system reports all data since the last signature (see graphic).

You can only complete a process step if all process messages have been created for the process instructions of this step. If several input values have been defined for a message, you must only enter data for the required values of the message category. You must, however, enter at least one value.

Special Features for Signature Strategy Processing

If the process instruction requires a signature strategy, the PI sheet does not contain an input field but a symbol that takes you to signature maintenance.

Signature strategies for process steps are carried out synchronously. This means that all signatures must be executed immediately after one another. It is only then that the system saves them and completes the process step.

The signatory name is transferred to the PI sheet after the strategy has been completed. If required, you can display detail data on the signatures and the signature strategy used from within the PI sheet.