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  Selecting Objects

Use

You select objects on the DS planning board :

  • Before you perform scheduling functions on them (before rescheduling operations or orders, for example)

  • To highlight objects

Prerequisites

Under Start of the navigation path Settings Next navigation step Select End of the navigation path in the DS planning board profile or on the DS planning board, you have specified:

  • Which objects can be selected on the DS planning board (for example, only objects in the diagram section, or all objects)

  • How the selection is represented (using colors or borders)

    Note Note

    You can save these settings directly in the current planning board profile. To do so, select Start of the navigation path Settings Next navigation step Save Settings in Planning Board Profile End of the navigation path .

    End of the note.

    You specify the selection color in the planning board profile.

Procedure

The following table shows how you select and deselect objects:

Objects

How to select the objects

An activity, an operation, a table row

Click on the object.

An activity group, operation group, order group

Click on the objects while pressing the SHIFT key, or press the left mouse button and draw a frame around the objects.

Several table rows

Click on the objects while pressing the CTRL key.

Select block

Select the first row and then select the last row while pressing the SHIFT key.

All objects

Choose Start of the navigation path Edit Next navigation step Select, End of the navigation path and then the desired selection function.

All objects in the chart in which the cursor is positioned

All graphical objects for the selected table rows

All table rows for the selected graphical objects

Objects highlighted in color

All operations and orders belonging to the selected operation or order

All operations and orders belonging to the same block as the selected operation or order

All operations or orders belonging to the same campaign as the selected operation or order

Operations, orders, or campaigns that are linked by time relationships or pegging relationships (networked objects)

Choose Start of the navigation path Edit Next navigation step Select Next navigation step More, End of the navigation path and then the desired selection function.

Selection function specified by the user in customer exit APOCDPS8

Choose Start of the navigation path Edit Next navigation step Select Next navigation step More, End of the navigation path and then the desired selection function.

For more information, see the system documentation for the customer exit.

Objects

How to undo the selection

An activity, an operation, a table row

Press the SHIFT key and click on the object.

All objects

Choose Start of the navigation path Edit Next navigation step Select Next navigation step Deselect All End of the navigation path or click on a free area on the DS planning board.

For more information, see Highlighting Objects in Color .