Functions in the Plan View and Check View

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 BW transport connection. You can transport the process chain and the dependent objects.

More information: Transporting BW Objects

Attributes

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

More information: 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.

Rotate

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

Navigator On/Off

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

Zoom In

With this function, you can enlarge your process chain view by about ten percent.

Zoom Out

With this function, you can reduce your process chain view by about ten percent.

Adjust

With this function, you adjust the process chain view to the size of the right-hand screen area.

Detail View On/Off

This function shows you the detailed view for process chain maintenance. Here you see the process type, technical name of the variant and the description of the variant are shown for each process. Important elements of the worklist saved in the variant are also listed. For example, when updating the PSA, information about the data loading process and data target is listed.

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

Choose 'Detail View Off' to return to the simplified view of process chain maintenance. Only process types and variant descriptions are displayed for a process here.

Remove from Display

This function removes a process chain from the display.

Schedule

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

Remove from scheduling

You use this function to cancel process chain scheduling. The chain is not executed.

Execute Synchronously

You use this function to schedule and execute the process in dialog mode - 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.

Stop Active Run Immediately

This function is only available when the process chain is being executed.

You use this function to stop the current process chain run. This may be necessary, for example, if the configuration of the processes in the chain leads to an unbearably high load volume or an unbearably long runtime. In this case, it may be better to improve the configuration of the relevant processes and then restart the process chain run. if you stop the active chain run, scheduling is canceled for all remaining jobs and an instruction is sent to the loading processes (InfoPackages, data transfer processes) to cancel loading as soon as possible.

Note While the process chain is still running, this function is also available in the toolbar of the process chain log view: ( Stop Active Run Immediately).

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. Then choose (Next Object) to repeat the navigation step.

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, which is linked to other processes, into the process chain, the corresponding process variants are generated and inserted into the process chain automatically. These variants are proposals that 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.