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Value assigned in planning

If the value of a message characteristic is to be assigned in the process instruction category, the master recipe or the process order, the characteristic needs to be assigned directly to the process instruction category.

If you want to use the characteristic value in another process instruction, for example, for calculations and input validations, you can define a variable that refers to this message characteristic.
Depending on how you define this variable, it is valid

• Within the PI sheet in which it has been defined

• For the entire process order

Assign the following characteristics:

Characteristic		Meaning		Allowed values
PPPI_VARIABLE		Variable valid		Any
		in PI sheet		variable name (1)
PPPI_GLOBAL_VARIABLE		Variable valid in		Any
		entire process order		variable name (1)
Message characteristic				Constant value

Note

(1) Names of variables in process instructions:

The following entries are not allowed:

• The variable name X

• Within a variable name:

• At the end of a variable name: