Set up process data requests

1. On the first screen, specify the type of data request you want to create.

a) Set the indicator for the corresponding data request type.

b) If you define a repeated data request, enter the minimum and maximum number of lines for the input table if required.

c) Choose Next screen.

2. On the second screen, assign one or more message categories depending on the type of data request to be created.

a) Enter the message category of the process message to be created for the process instruction in the PI sheet.

To help you choose the message category, the assistant displays the characteristics of the message category you have just assigned on this screen.

b) If you define a repeated data request, choose Insert MessCategory for every additional message category and enter the message category key.

c) If you have assigned several message categories, use the sort numbers to specify the message category sequence.

d) For repeated data requests, select the message category for which you want to define processing data in the next step.

e) Choose Next screen.

3. On the third screen, specify the message characteristics and variables to be copied to the process instruction and how they are to be processed.

a) Set the selection indicator for the characteristics of the process message category you want to copy to the process instruction, and thus to the corresponding process message.

b) If you want to add characteristics to the process message that are not predefined for the message category, choose Insert char. and select the characteristic you want to add.

c) If you want to display additional variable values in the PI sheet, choose Insert variable and enter the variable name.

d) Set the Input indicator for characteristics whose values you want to enter in the PI sheet.

e) Set the Output indicator for characteristics whose values are to be dispayed in the PI sheet.

In this way, you can display a planned value deviating from an actual value for characteristics that are also marked as input values.

Variables are automatically flagged as output values.

f) If the unit of measure is to be displayed after a numeric input value in the PI sheet, set the UM indicator for this input value.

To be able to do so, make sure that the standard characteristics for the unit of measure are contained in the process instruction and the Output indicator has not been set for the unit of measure in the process instruction.

g) Choose Next screen.

4. On the fourth screen, define the short texts and sequence of the input and output values and the headings to group values.

a) Use the sort numbers to specify the order of the input and output values .

b) Enter short texts for the input and output values.

Note:

If you define several output values in a simple data request and want them displayed in the same line, enter a short text for the first output value only.

c) If you want to group several values under a common heading, choose Insert group and enter the heading.

d) Specify where the heading is to be displayed by entering the appropriate sort number.

In the PI sheet, all values following this heading are indented.

e) Choose Next screen.

5. On the fifth screen, specify how the message characteristics are to be processed in the PI sheet.

If you enter long texts, do not use special character formats such as bold or italics. They are not taken into account in the PI sheet.

For hidden characteristics and output values:

a) Select the message characteristic.

b) In the Characteristic value group box, specify how the value is to be assigned to the characteristic.

c) If required, enter a variable name for the characteristic value in the Variable definition group box and specify the variable's validity area.

For input values:

a) Select the message characteristic.

b) In the Default value group box, specify whether a default value is to be displayed for the input value and how it is determined.

c) If required, define a validation rule in the Input validation group box and specify how invalid values are treated.

If you allocate a check function as the validation rule, choose Function module parameters and define value assignment for the parameters.

Note:

You cannot define an input validation for the standard characteristic Signature. Depending on the type of signature of your control recipe destinations, make the corresponding settings for the authorization check, signature strategy, and signature process instead.

d) If you define a numeric input value, enter a variable name for the characteristic value in the Variable definition group box and specify the variable's validity area if required.

6. If you define a repeated data request, choose Next screen.

The second screen appears again.

7. Select the next message category and repeat steps 3 to 5.