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Description

Create

You specify a technical name and a description for the process chain and a dialog box appears. In the dialog box, you create the start process for the process chain.

Copy

You use this function to copy the process chain you have selected, along with its references to process variants, and save it under a new name and description.  If necessary, swap process variants with the variants needed in the new chain or delete or enhance the variants.

Save

You use this function to save the current status of the process chain.

Activate

You use this function to activate the process chain. You can only activate the chain if the system did not find errors during the check.

Reset to active version

You use this function to reset a process chain that has been changed and saved, back to its status when it was last activated.

Transport

You use this function to display the BI transport connection. You can transport the process chain and the dependent objects.

See also:  BI Transport Connection: Transporting Objects

Attributes

You use this function to display or determine various attributes for process chains.

See also:  Display/Maintenance of Process Chain Attributes

Print

You use this function to print the network graphic for a process chain.

Save as image

You use this function to save the network graphic for a process chain as a jpg. file.

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Description

Rotate

You use this function to switch between vertical and horizontal views.

Navigator on/off

You use this function to hide or display a movable navigator in the right-hand area of the process chain maintenance screen. It gives you an overview of the process chain that is being processed. It also allows you to enlarge or reduce the view by moving the mouse. 

Enlarge

You use this function to enlarge your process chain view by ten percent.

Reduce

You use this function to reduce your process chain view by ten percent.

Adjust

You use this function to adjust the process chain view to the size of the right-hand screen area.

Detail view on/off

You use this function to display the detailed view for process chain maintenance. The process type, technical name of the variant, and description of the variant for a process are displayed here. Important elements of the worklist saved in the variant are also listed. For example, when updating the PSA, information about the data load process and data target is listed.

A collection process is displayed several times in the detailed view. This multiple display helps you to visualize that a job is started for each process and for each event triggered by the process.

You use the Detail View Off function to display the simplified view of process chain maintenance. Only the process types and variant descriptions for a process are displayed.

Remove from display

You use this function to remove a process chain from the display.

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Description

Schedule

You use this function to schedule and execute the process chain in the background, in accordance with the settings in the start process.

Remove from scheduling

You use this function to delete the scheduling for the process chain. The chain is not executed.

Execute synchronously

You use this function to schedule and execute the process in the dialog, instead of in the background.

The processes in the chain are processed serially using a dialog process. The system writes a log entry for each process. You can display the chain run in the log view.

The separate processes themselves are processed serially, if this is possible. If this is not possible (depending on the process type), synchronous processing is terminated at this point and is only resumed when the other process has finished, and this has been communicated to the process chain.

We recommend that you only execute simple chains with small datasets synchronously. In this case, the performance gain of executing in dialog (you do not have to schedule a background job) may outweigh the performance loss due to parallelization. Multiple runs can be processed in parallel, since there are no conflicts regarding the required background jobs.

Execute as simulated

You use this function to simulate the process chain. The system does not write log entries or process the data persistently. The process chain is displayed in the log view immediately after execution. If a process type supports this function, the context menu of the process contains the entry Simulation Result. This displays the result of the process.

Execute synchronous to debugging

You use this function to debug the execution of the process chain. The process chain is executed synchronously. If the chain contains separated processes, the system waits until these processes are completed.

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Description

Plan view

You use this function to switch between the display and change modes for the process chain.

Check view

You use this function to switch to the plan view for the process chain.

If the chain that you create does not correspond to the standard, the system displays a warning. You can ignore these warnings if you are sure that you are creating a chain that meets your requirements. Warnings do not affect how the chain operates at runtime. Your chain is checked in the check view and during activation. The system tells you if it discovers any errors.

Log view

You use this function to switch to the log view for the process chain.

See also: Process chain log display

Job overview

You use this function to display a new mode in the job overview (transaction SM37).

Back

You use this function to undo the last navigation step. You use  Next Object to repeat the navigation step.

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Description

Maintain process types

You use this function to display process type maintenance.

See also: Maintenance of Process Types

Maintain alert categories

You use this function to display alert category maintenance (table RSPC_ALERT_CAT).

See also: Send Alerts for Process Chains

Default chains

You use this function to determine that the system does not propose processes for the process chain.

If you insert a process into the chain that is linked to additional processes, the respective process variants are generated and inserted into the process chain automatically. These variants are suggestions and can be changed, replaced or removed from the chain as required. Variant maintenance is called when the change run performs automatic insert.

If you want to insert a second process of the same type in the process chain and the selection conditions of the process overlap with those of the process already inserted in the chain, the system does not generate process variants. In this case, the system does not generate additional process variants, since it cannot guarantee that this is required.

If you want to specify the processes that are to be included in a chain yourself, select Do Not Suggest Processes. As a result, the system does not suggest, generate, or automatically insert any processes into the chain. This setting is user-specific.

Tree display/network display

You use this function to switch between a tree display and a network-graphic display for the process chain. The tree display is designed for screen reader devices.