Type 0: Definition of Output Fields for Characteristic Values (SAP Library

Type 0: Definition of Output Fields for Characteristic Values

Use

You can use this function in the browser-based PI sheet or process manufacturing cockpit to display characteristic values that are usually processed in the background (such as planned values for input values).

Features

You can display the following characteristic values in a PI sheet:

Values of message characteristics that have been assigned in the process instruction
The date and time that is assigned automatically as the characteristic value of PPPI-EVENT_DATE and PPPI_EVENT_TIME in the PI sheet or cockpit
Planned values for input values, provided that the planned values have been defined as default values in the process instruction
Long texts with control information and notes that are used as values of long text characteristics such as PPPI_INSTRUCTION and PPPI_NOTE

Unlike Type 1: process parameter, you must explicitly specify that characteristics PPPI_INSTRUCTION and PPPI_NOTE are characteristics to be output in process instructions of type 0.

In addition to the characteristic value to be displayed, you also specify a text in the process instruction. In the PI sheet or cockpit, this text is processed as follows:

In simple data requests, the text is displayed before the output value.
In repeated data requests, you must define a text for every output value. The text is displayed above the relevant table column.

Activities

In the process instruction, you define a characteristic value after the input value after which you want to display it in the PI sheet or cockpit. To do so, you assign the following characteristics to the process instruction:

Characteristic	Meaning	Allowed Values
PPPI_OUTPUT_TEXT	Text that is displayed before the output values to follow	Any short text
PPPI_OUTPUT_CHARACTERISTIC	Characteristic whose value is displayed in the PI sheet or cockpit	Message characteristic to be displayed

In the case of text characteristics (such as PPPI_OUTPUT_TEXT), you can insert the value of another characteristic into this text using a text symbol; see Text Symbols in Characteristic Texts.