Executing Drilldown Reporting Jobs (SAP Library

Executing Drilldown Reporting Jobs

Prerequisites

See Drilldown Reporting Job.

Procedure

In the Product Safety menu, choose one of the following paths:

Specifications ® Edit specifications

Specifications ® Display specifications

Specifications ® Specification information system

The initial screen appears.

Choose Environment ® Drilldown reporting job.

The Drilldown Reporting Job screen appears.

Enter data as required. To enter the key for the set of hits in the Grp entry field under Set of hits, you can choose one of the following options:

Enter a new key manually. A new set of hits is created.
Choose an existing set of hits using the input help. This is then overwritten.

Choose .

The Start Time screen appears.

Choose one of the following functions to specify the start time:

Immediately

The drilldown reporting job is released and started immediately.

Date/Time

Enter a date and a time for the scheduled start. By entering the appropriate data under No start after, you can also prevent the background job being started after the specified time.

After job

Under Name enter a previous job after which the drilldown reporting job is to be started. Choose Start status-dependent if the drilldown reporting job is to be started only if the previous job was successful.

After event

Enter the event that must occur before the drilldown reporting job is started. This can guarantee that the SAP System has reached a predefined state before the drilldown reporting job is started. If the event requires a parameter, enter it under Parameter.

Operation mode

Under Name enter a name for the operation mode in which the drilldown reporting job is to be started.

Choose a factory calendar and enter a workday relative to the beginning or end of the month on which the drilldown reporting job is to be started.

With the exception of the After job function, all functions offer the possibility of executing the drilldown reporting job periodically. For this function, enter under >> after how many months the drilldown reporting job is to be repeated. For the other functions choose Execute job periodically and enter under Period Values whether the drilldown reporting job is to be repeated hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or at another freely selectable interval.

Save the start time values.

The Drilldown Reporting Job screen appears again.

Save the scheduled drilldown reporting job.

Result

The system executes the query in the background on the specified start date and saves the search result as a set of hits. You can load and edit the set of hits (see Set of Hits Management).