Inserting Text Symbols in the PI Assistant (SAP Library

Inserting Text Symbols in the PI Assistant

Use

You use this procedure in the process instruction assistant (PI assistant) to insert a text symbol in a short text.

If you are familiar with the syntax of text symbols, you can also insert them manually:

On the characteristic overview, to insert text symbols in short and long texts
In the process instruction assistant, to insert text symbols in long texts

For more information, see Using Text Symbols in Process Instructions.

Prerequisites

The field for the short text is long enough and can accommodate the text symbol.

In addition, one of the following requirements is met:

The value of the characteristic to which the text symbol refers can be assigned automatically in the process order or when you create a control recipe.
You maintain a process data request or process data calculation formula. The characteristic to which the text symbol refers is assigned as a message characteristic in the same process instruction.

Procedure

In the process instruction assistant, go to the short text in which you want to insert a text symbol.

Place the cursor on the position where you want to insert the text symbol.

Choose Edit ® Insert ® Text symbol.

A dialog box appears containing all the characteristics whose values can be assigned automatically.

If you maintain a process data request or process data calculation formulas, the dialog box also contains all the message characteristics assigned to the process instruction. They are displayed before the characteristics whose values are assigned automatically, separated by a line.

Place the cursor on the characteristic to which you want to refer and choose .

The system inserts the text symbol where you positioned the cursor.

By double-clicking the text symbols, you can display the corresponding characteristic any time you like.