Type 0: Definition of Message Creation 

Use

You can use process messages to report actual data from production control to the process order or other R/3 components. Reporting actual data can trigger certain business transactions in the corresponding R/3 component. This ensures that the data from production control is consistent with the data of different R/3 components.

You can create process messages in any universal process instruction of type 0, irrespective of the functions it contains.

Prerequisites

You must create the process message category you want to use in Customizing for Process Management under Process Messages -> Define and Set up Process Message Categories.

Features

The standard R/3 System contains a number of predefined process message destinations along with message categories.

In R/3 Integration Using Process Messages and the subordinate sections, you will find information about the following:

Activities

You can define one or more process messages in each universal process instruction, depending on whether it is a simple or a repeated data request.

You assign the following characteristic to the process instruction:

Characteristic

Meaning

Allowed Values

PPPI_MESSAGE_CATEGORY

Message category

Any message category

Immediately after the characteristic PPPI_MESSAGE_CATEGORY, you must define at least all required characteristics of the message category.

If you want to create several messages, you can assign this characteristic several times.

The system reports all message characteristics, that is, even those that do not belong to the message category specified.