You can use this function to determine the point of time (date and time) at which a process instruction was processed in the browser-based PI sheet or in the process manufacturing cockpit . In a process instruction, you can automatically assign a value to the date and time once for each message category block.
You can automatically assign the date or time as values to the following standard characteristics:
PPPI_EVENT_DATE: date of the event
PPPI_EVENT_TIME: time of the event
The system determines the date and time when you maintain the process instruction in the PI sheet.
When defining automatic value assignment, you specify the following information in the process instruction:
A variable that refers to the characteristic whose value is to be assigned automatically if you want to use the date and time in another process instruction of the same process order
Caution
Note that you may use global variables in PI sheets only.
The message characteristic whose value is to be assigned automatically
The characteristic PPPI_OUTPUT_CHARACTERISTIC that you can use to display the date and time in the PI sheet
Note
You can also mark the date and time as input values. The system then proposes the current date and time in the possible entries. Unlike automatic value assignment, however, you can still change the value.
To enter this information, you assign the following characteristics to the process instruction in the order specified below:
Characteristic |
Meaning |
Value |
Variable definition for the characteristic whose value is to be assigned automatically < PPPI_VARIABLE In PI sheets only: < PPPI_GLOBAL_VARIABLE |
Variable Global variable |
New variable name New variable name |
PPPI_AUTOMATIC_VALUE |
Message characteristic whose value is to be assigned automatically |
PPPI_EVENT_DATE PPPI_EVENT_TIME |
PPPI_OUTPUT_CHARACTERISTIC |
Characteristic to be output |
PPPI_EVENT_DATE PPPI_EVENT_TIME |