Type 0: Definition of Entries (SAP Library - Process Management (PP-PI-PMA))

Type 0: Definition of Entries

Use

You can use this function to define input fields in the browser-based PI sheet or Process Manufacturing Cockpit in which you want someone to enter values.

In the PI sheet and cockpit, you can use input fields for the following:

To record specific actual values from the production environment

In the PI sheet, you can also use input fields for the following additional functions:

To execute signatures that are to complete a process step in the PI sheet

To execute signatures that complete the entire PI sheet
See also Completing Browser-Based PI Sheets

You can also define signatures that complete process instructions in cockpits but here Complete only means that process messages are created automatically.

You can use a process message to report the values the process operator has entered.
See also Type 0: Definition of Message Creation.

In addition, you can define the following functions for the value to be entered:

A default value

An input validation

Prerequisites

If you want to report the value entered, the characteristic that is marked as the input value must be contained in the message category.

Features

The number of input fields to be created depends on the type of data request:

One input field is created for a simple data request.
A table column is created for a repeated data request.

If you do not enter a data request type, the system sets "simple data request" by default.

Activities

When defining an input value, you specify the following information in the process instruction:

A text that is displayed before the corresponding input field or above the corresponding table column in the PI sheet or cockpit

The message characteristic whose value is made available as the default value for the input value in the PI sheet or cockpit
See also Type 0: Definition of Default Values

A variable that refers to the input characteristic if you want to use the characteristic in another process instruction of the same process order

The message characteristic whose value you want to enter

If required, an input validation that is used to check the input value in the PI sheet or cockpit
See also: Type 0: Definition of Input Validations
Here you define one of the following functions:

A check formula for numerical values
A check function for all values

To enter this information, you assign the following characteristics to the process instruction in the order specified below:

Characteristic	Meaning	Value
PPPI_INPUT_REQUEST	Input request	Any short text
< PPPI_DEFAULT_VALUE or < PPPI_DEFAULT_STRING or < PPPI_DEFAULT_VARIABLE or < <Any message characteristic>	Default value < Numerical value < Alphanumerical value < Variable < Characteristic value	Default value: < Any numerical value < Any alphanumerical value < Existing variable name < According to characteristic definition See also: Type 0: Definition of Default Values
< PPPI_VARIABLE In PI sheets only: < PPPI_GLOBAL_VARIABLE (See also: Process Instructions for Process Manufacturing Cockpits)	Variable definition for value entered: < Variable < Global variable	Variable definition: < New variable name < New variable name
PPPI_REQUESTED_VALUE	Message characteristic whose value is assigned manually	Characteristics of the assigned message category
< PPPI_VALIDATION_FORMULA or < PPPI_VALIDATION_FUNCTION > <Parameters for check function>	Check formula Check function	Input validation: Boolean formula (see Syntax of Check Formulas) Name of the function module See also: Type 0: Definition of Input Validations
PPPI_TEXT_FOR_INVALID_INPUT	Long text for invalid entries	Any long text
PPPI_ACCEPT_INVALID_INPUT	Accepting invalid entries	- Accept always - Accept never - Accept with signature only
In PI sheets only: PPPI_SIGNATURE_AUTHORIZATION	Authorization for signature	Any value for the Activity field in the authorization object C_CRPI_BER
In PI sheets only: PPPI_SIGNATURE_STRATEGY	Signature strategy	Signature strategy

A value can be assigned automatically to the characteristics for the date (PPPI_EVENT_DATE) and time (PPPI_EVENT_TIME) in the PI sheet. If you define these characteristics as input values, the system proposes the current values as possible entries in the PI sheet.