Overview of Settings (SAP Library - Integrated Product and Process Engineering (iPPE))

Overview of Settings

Before you start the conversion, we advise you to check the settings.

Settings Tab Page

The following overview lists the general settings.

Settings	Use
Follow model marker	If you set this indicator, the iPPE model is exploded right down to the lowest level. The explosion in a higher explosion level (such as alternative) is also continued, if there no access for the subordinate structure. If there is no access in the exploded iPPE model, the explosion may be followed in another iPPE model.
Convert view structures	If you set this indicator, the iPPE model is exploded including structures without components (view nodes, for example). This can be useful for exploding view structures, for example. Since view nodes have no component variants, there are no component assignments. In a multilevel view structure, however, the lowest level may have structure nodes with several component variants assigned. You have modeled a multilevel view structure for a product structure. The view node at the lowest level has a structure node assigned to it, which has several component variants. If you want to include these component variants for extraction, set this indicator.

Dialog setting

This indicator controls how you can check and process the extracted data.

Display result display
Before saving the conversion result, the result preview is displayed. This is a simulation of the conversion result. The preview is especially useful if you are converting a model for the first time.
It gives you a lot of conversion information, on created and changed assemblies and material components, for example.

Go to processing
Before saving the conversion result, you can process the extracted data in the Engineering Workbench (EWB).

Continue without dialog
The data is extracted from the iPPE model and converted and saved without any more intermediate steps.

Create Tab page

The following overview lists the settings on the Create tab page.

Settings	Use
Create with usage	You specify the BOM usage you want to use to create the material BOM. By selecting the usage (production, for example), you define, for example, the possible item statuses (for example, production-relevant item). The item status is required to create a material component of the material BOM from a component variant of the iPPE model.
Create with valid-from date	You define whether the creation data (administrative data) of an iPPE object from the iPPE model is copied as the valid-from date of the BOM object. Alternatively, you can enter any other date you like.

Delete Tab Page

The following overview lists the settings on the Delete tab page.

Settings	Use
Do not delete items	No items are deleted after conversion. In this case, you need not define any more settings on this tab page.
Delete if transferred again	On this tab page, you control whether items are deleted if transferred (converted) again. If items are to be deleted, define the validity conditions: On the date of conversion With change number In this case, you also enter the change number here. An item is only deleted if: It was created by earlier transfers. It is not in the current extraction data. If you want to delete items with invalid statuses, set the Delete objects with invalid status indicator. An item is only deleted if: Its status in the current conversion defines the item as Not relevant to conversion. It was created by earlier transfers. The item has been deleted from the iPPE model, so is not in the current extraction data.

Variant Tab Page

The following overview lists the settings on the Variant tab page.

Settings	Use
Structure variant options	You define the scope of variants included for conversion from the iPPE model. If the status of iPPE objects is to be ignored for conversion, set the Ignore status of variant indicator. If you want to convert variants that have no material, set the Convert variants without material indicator. In this case this variant of the iPPE model is converted to a text item in the material BOM. In the standard system, only structure nodes with variants are extracted. A component variant usually has a material. In the conversion process, a material item is generated from this variant.
Assignment of Variant	You define the scope of data that is copied to the BOM item from the component variant in the iPPE model. Copy documents Copy long text Copy dependencies