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Assign Characteristics to Sequence Definitions

This section describes which characteristics you have to assign when defining process instruction categories of type sequence definition for R/3 PI sheets.

In a sequence definition, you specify the number of the phase you must have completed processing before you can process the phase containing the sequence definition.

Assign the following characteristics:

Characteristic Meaning Allowed values
PPPI_PREDECESSOR number of the phase number of a phase of
to be processed first the respective order
(predecessor phase)

The characteristic PPPI_PREDECESSOR can only be used once in a sequence definition. If there are several predecessors of a phase, you have to specify a sequence definition for each predecessor.

Requirements

Define characteristics for process instructions

Standard Settings

The standard R/3 System contains an example of a sequence definition.

Activities

1. Select the process instruction of type "sequence definition" to which you want to assign characteristics.
2. Go to screen Characteristics/instruct. cat..
3. To assign new characteristics, choose New entries.
4. Enter the sort number and the characteristic name PPPI_PREDECESSOR.
5. Save the settings.

Further Notes

When generating process instructions with the scope of generation 05 (for all predecessors), the value of the characteristic PPPI_PREDECESSOR is automatically assigned. The number of the preceding phase is determined from the relationships defined in the order.