Automatic Value Assignment to Process Instruction Characteristics 

Use

You can use this function to transfer data maintained elsewhere in the system to your process instructions.

Using automatic characteristic value assignment, you can copy the long text maintained for a phase or the material data maintained in the material list to your process instruction.

If you want the system to generate process instructions when you create a control recipe, a value must be assigned automatically to all characteristics whose value has not yet been assigned in Customizing. Otherwise, you cannot create the control recipe.

Prerequisites

There are two ways of automatic characteristic value assignment:

You can assign values in this way if the characteristic has been defined for it in the standard system (see below).

You can assign values in this way if a value assignment function or table field has been assigned to the characteristic in Customizing.

Features

Automatic Value Assignment During Generation

You can only use this type of value assignment for specific standard characteristics. It depends on the scope of generation (see table below).

If you have selected the scope of generation For all reservation items, the item for which the corresponding process instruction has been generated is assigned to characteristic PPPI_RESERVATION_ITEM (reservation item).

 

Characteristic Value Assignment and Scope of Generation - Dependencies

Scope of Generation

Characteristics with Automatic Value Assignment

For all reservation items and order items

PPPI_MATERIAL_ITEM
PPPI_RESERVATION_ITEM

For all reservations

PPPI_BATCH
PPPI_MATERIAL (Material number)
PPPI_MATERIAL_CO_PRODUCT (Co-product indicator)
PPPI_MATERIAL_CONSUMED (Quantity of material consumed)
PPPI_MATERIAL_ITEM
PPPI_RESERVATION_ITEM
PPPI_MATERIAL_PRODUCED (Quantity of material produced)
PPPI_MATERIAL_QUANTITY
PPPI_MATERIAL_SHORT_TEXT
PPPI_STORAGE_LOCATION

For all order items

PPPI_ORDER_ITEM_NUMBER (order item)

For all inspection characteristics

PPPI_INSPECTION_CHARACTERISTIC

For all predecessors

PPPI_PREDECESSOR

For all variable activities of phases

PPPI_STD_VALUE_PARAMETER_ID
(Parameter ID of the standard value)

 

Automatic Value Assignment During Control Recipe Creation

When you create a control recipe, this type of value assignment is used for characteristics for which the corresponding Customizing settings have been made (see Prerequisites) and whose values have not yet been assigned.

If you want to check and, if necessary, correct the values determined automatically before you create the control recipe, you can also start value assignment manually in the process order. Note, however, that the characteristic values are not automatically updated when you later change the relevant object (for example, the material list for material characteristics).

The standard system contains a number of characteristics to which a value assignment function has been assigned. In these functions, the characteristic value is often determined according to values of other characteristics assigned to the same process instruction. The sections below give an overview of these dependencies.

The A indicator (automatic value assignment) is set in the characteristic overview of the process instructions for characteristics whose value is assigned automatically when you create the control recipe. For information on the value assignment logic for standard characteristics whose value is assigned using a function, see the field help for this indicator.

 

Assigning Values to Material Characteristics - Dependencies

In automatic characteristic value assignment, material data is determined as follows:

If you use batch determination, note the following:

 

Assigning Values to the Unit of Measurement - Dependencies

A value is only assigned to the unit of measurement automatically if a quantity has been determined automatically in the same process instruction before.

The unit of measurement of the material quantity is automatically assigned to the characteristic if a value has been automatically assigned before to one of the following characteristics in the process instructions:

Assigning Values to Activity Characteristics - Dependencies

A value is only assigned automatically to characteristics for variable activities if a value has been assigned to the characteristic for the corresponding parameter ID of the standard value (PPPI_STD_VALUE_PARAMETER) in the process instruction.

Assigning Values to Resource Characteristics - Dependencies

Using the value assignment function COAV_RESOURCE_CHARACTERISTIC, you can copy characteristic values that have been entered during resource classification to your process instruction characteristic. One of the following requirements must be met:

Grouping Input Values - Dependencies

A value is only assigned automatically to the characteristic for grouping input values if the following requirements are met: