Define Traffic Lights 

Use

Use the exception groups to define under which conditions materials are indicated by red, yellow, or green traffic lights. Example: You want all materials, whose dates lie in the past, to be indicated by a red traffic light.

The definition of traffic lights applies to both types of list.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. Choose .

    2. The system displays the Define traffic light dialog box.

  2. Enter the number of workdays for the parameters Days' supply, 1st receipt days' supply and 2nd receipt days' supply, and under which circumstances the materials are to be displayed with red, yellow, and green traffic lights.

    3. You want the traffic light to be red when the days' supply for a material is <= 0, yellow when the days' supply is > 0 and <= 10 days, and green when the days' supply is > 10 days.

    Enter:

     

    Red

    Yellow

    Green

    Days’ supply

    0

    10

    999,9

  3. Use the exception groups to define under which conditions materials are indicated by red, yellow, or green traffic lights.

    4. You want materials with exception messages in exception group 4 to be indicated by a yellow traffic light and materials with exception messages in exception group 5 to be indicated by a red traffic light.

    Choose:

     

    Red

    Yellow

    Green

    Exception group 4

    		  

    X

    		  

    Exception group 5

    X

    		    

  4. Choose to activate the settings for the current display, or to save them permanently.

Result

The system sets the traffic light for the material after taking the settings for all the ranges of coverage and all the exception groups into consideration.

A material with a days' supply of 12 days would be indicated by a green traffic light if the settings above were entered. However, if there was an exception in exception group 5 and exception group 5 was indicated by red, the material would be indicated by a red traffic light.