Selection of Progress Tracking Objects (SAP Library

Selection of Progress Tracking Objects

Use

Before you can use Progress Tracking, you need to select those network components or purchase orders whose progress you wish to track.

Prerequisites

To use Progress Tracking you must create at least one Progress Tracking profile in Customizing for the Project System by choosing Progress ® Progress Tracking ® Define Progress Tracking Profile or Customizing for Materials Management, by choosing Purchasing ® Purchase Order ® Progress Tracking ® Define Progress Tracking Profile.

Features

There are two steps to selecting the objects whose progress you wish to track.

Selection Screen

The initial selection screen is divided into four sections:

First you must enter a profile. You must define at least one profile in Customizing for Progress Tracking, which you can then select from the drop-down menu in the Profile field.

Then you can enter application-specific selection criteria in the Project Selection and Further Selection Parameters sections. For example, if you are selecting network components, you can enter the network to which the component belongs or the requirements date for the material. If you are selecting purchase orders, you can enter the purchasing group or the manufacturer, for example.

You can also limit the selection according to Progress Tracking data itself, for example, scenario or event, under Progress Tracking Parameters.

Finally, you have the option of using customer-specific data fields to limit your selection, by choosing Customer Fields.

Note

The customer-specific fields are usually set up by the system administrator. For more information about customer includes, see Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) for Progress Tracking.

Network Components / Purchase Order Selection

In this second stage of the selection process you see an overview of all the objects that fulfill the selection criteria you entered in the first stage described above.

The selection screen is in the form of a SAP List Viewer (ALV) overview containing the objects and related information. In this overview you can:

Sort and filter the information in any way you like

Define and maintain user or application-specific layouts

Select as many entries as you like, which you can process together in Progress Tracking

Note

When you return to this overview from the main Progress Tracking screen, the objects that you originally selected are still highlighted. This means that you can clearly see what you have already processed, which allows you to select the next block of unprocessed entries, if required.

Activities

Selection Screen

To access the initial selection screen for Progress Tracking, choose Logistics or Accounting ® Project System ® Progress ® Progress Tracking or Materials Management ® Purchasing ® Purchase Orders ® Follow-On Functions ® Progress Tracking.

Enter your selection criteria on this screen and choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Execute.

Layout Variant

You can adapt this screen to your own requirements by creating a layout variant. Choose Goto ® Variants ® Save as Variant to branch to the Save as Variant screen.
For more information about creating and saving variants, choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Information About Variant Attributes on the Save as Variant screen.

Network Components / Purchase Order Selection

To start Progress Tracking, select the object(s) you wish to process in Progress Tracking and choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Change, or if you want to display them only, choose Display.

Hotspots

If the data in a field in the overview is underlined, this means that it has a "hotspot". You can branch to the transaction for displaying the relevant object by clicking the underlined data once.

Layout Variant

To find out how to create a layout variant for the ALV overview, choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text to branch to the SAP List Viewer (ALV) Grid Control documentation in the SAP Library. Choose SAP List Viewer (ALV) Grid Control ® Layouts.