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Changes in Data and Consolidation Monitor 

Use

New interface

The interface of the data and consolidation monitor was completely reworked and changed to a new hierarchical control display.

However this changeover only relates to the display and not to the elements which are presented, that means that there the hierarchies of dimension are still in the left part, and to the right of them, the information belonging to them on status management (overall and detail status).

Note that the icons for the presentation of task status "Incomplete" and "Error(s)" have changed . You can see the symbol/color key in the data or consolidation monitor.

The new interface also enables context menus, along with the dynamic setting of column widths. You can request these via cursor positioning and a right mouse click (context sensitive).
In these menus the most common functions are offered in the special context.

The scroll keys, known from earlier releases, for scrolling tasks are no longer necessary with the new user interface and therefore have been discarded. If the current size of the window is not sufficient to display all tasks, then a horizontal scrollbar is available, or you can configure the column widths by simply moving the column breaks with the cursor. You can save these settings as the user layout.

The dialog box, known from earlier releases, for executing a task of the category "Data collection" was also completely reworked and replaced by a hierarchical display for the selection of layouts, document types and additional financial data.

Further functions

Along with changes in the user interface, further functions were integrated into the monitor:

Enables navigation to a detailed monitor display for the selected consolidation group or the selected consolidation unit. In this detail display
Enables the last log to be called up for the selected consolidation group and/or the selected unit and the tasks. This function is only available for a task, when you have activated log archiving in Customizing. Note that this new function does not yet support all task categories.
The only difference in executing tasks in test or update mode, is that in test mode, no posting takes place in the database. Therefore executing a task in a consolidation group or a consolidation unit, which is already blocked, usually makes no sense, as blocked organizational units are not processed in the test run and no meanin gful list is to be expected.
Specially for this case, the new function "Test with original list" was integrated into the monitors. When you start with the original list, the status management blocks from the respective program are ignored, which means that a test run with original list behaves as if no blocks were set for the tasks.

Effects on Customizing

The required task, known from earlier releases, for the "Validation of standardized financial data" in a task group for the data monitor has now been discarded.
Instead you can now indicate the "last task" in the task group for the data monitor. This can only be one task, which has no more successors within the task group. The system checks this condition when saving the task group definition. If a task group contains a task "Validation of standardized financial data" in the data monitor, this is automatically viewed as the last task of the task group. You cannot override this setting.

If you want to call up the logs for certain tasks in the monitor later, then activate the log archiving in the Implementation Guide, section "Consolidation Functions". At this point you can also deactivate log creation during program runtime. This can considerably improve performance when executing tasks.