Presentation Management 

Purpose

Presentation Management is responsible for decoupling the business logic from the physical presentation of application data on a selected presentation device, allowing you to choose the way in which assigned tasks are displayed. This is of particular importance to mobile presentations, where flexibility in displaying data on the screen and adjusting transactions to changing requirements is indispensable.

For more information on configuring presentation data, see the IMG for Logistics Execution ® Task & Resource Management ® Presentation Management.

For a diagrammatic representation of presentation data configuration, see Presentation Data Model.

Features

Presentation Management supports the following features:

       1.      Personalized screen layout in template form (that can be exchanged) and personalized pushbutton set per transaction

You can configure screen settings according to different resource presentation devices. The display profile reflects the properties of the presentation device and defines exactly how data is displayed. You can define the following properties of a presentation device:

¡        Screen width

¡        Number of message lines allowed for this display profile

¡        Maximum number of menu items to be displayed on the screen

¡        Size of pushbuttons

¡        Maximum number of displayed pushbuttons for the display profile

¡        Template screen ID that is used in the display profile

¡        List template screen ID that is used in the display profile

       2.      Personalized menu

You can define the following:

¡        Personalized menu to be displayed when you log on to the system

¡        Preferred menu items

¡        The sequence in which menu items appear

In Customizing for Logistics Execution ® Task & Resource Management ®  Presentation Management ® Define Menus ® Menu Tree,  you can include external transactions (such as those used in Mobile Data Entry (LE-MOB)) as menu items by entering the external transaction in the Ext. trans. field.

       3.      Support of different physical devices and technologies

Presentation Management supports a variety of device types and sizes, including RF character devices and RF GUI devices.

       4.      Different flow logics

You can influence the process flow, the set of logical steps that are linked by a relationship. Each set consists of a predecessor and a successor step that is triggered either:

¡        In background mode, according to the selected function code; or

¡        In foreground mode, by the user during their interaction with the physical screen, resulting in the execution of the respective function module.