Control Information (SAP Library - Process Management (PP-PI-PMA))

Control Information

Use

In process parameters, you have two options for defining control information that is to be displayed on the overview screen of the PI sheet:

Information can be entered manually in the process instruction (usually as a long text).

Information which is already available somewhere else in the system (for example, an operation text from an order or material data from the material list) can be obtained via automatic assignment of characteristic values in the process order.

Assign one or more of the following characteristics to suit your requirements:

Characteristic	Meaning	Value
PPPI_INSTRUCTION	Text with control information (overview screen)	Any long text, entered manually in the process instruction
Any other characteristics		According to characteristic definition, entered manually or automatically

The characteristic PPPI_INSTRUCTION can be used several times in a process parameter.

In the PI sheet, the short texts of the characteristics are displayed before the characteristic values or texts.

If the value of a characteristic is a long text or a short text, you can insert the value of another characteristic into this text using a text symbol;
see Text Symbols Within Characteristic Texts.