Layout Module Version Maintenance 

Use

This function allows you to create, change and delete layout module versions.

You can use several versions of a layout module with different validity periods, for example, because planning is to take effect on shelves at a future date rather than immediately. The validity periods of the individual versions within a layout module are unique and must not overlap. The time-based scheduling of layout modules in versions enables you to plan seasonal variations for a shelf quickly and easily, for example.

Prerequisites

Note the following restrictions:

·        You can copy layout module versions with articles and/or layout module variants. Article assignments to the layout module and the variants are copied but any assignments of these variants to assortments are not copied.

·        Versions that have already expired cannot be changed.

·        The validity periods of the individual versions must not overlap.

·        Only the end date of a version can be changed subsequently. Gaps in versions can only be closed by extending the end date of the older version.

·        Subsequent versions automatically have a higher version number.

·        When the system creates a new version it automatically assigns the next available version number.

·        If the status of the currently valid (active) version is set to “planned”, a message appears.

·        The original version 0000 can never be deleted.

Features

·        You can use the following criteria to select the layout module versions:

Article

Layout

Vendor

Classification

Article hierarchy

You can use the WRF_WLAY_WLWBNEXT1_E BAdI to include any article characteristics you want in the selection.

·        You can copy existing layout module versions. The system copies the existing article assignments and all placement data to the new version. If necessary, you can also copy all existing layout module variants (but without assigning them to local assortments).

·        You can cross-copy layout modules to copy a version to an existing version (this overwrites existing article assignments in the target version) or to a newly created version of another layout module.

·        You can replace articles in the following ways:

¡        Layout-module-specific replacement

The system replaces an article in all layout module versions with a new article.

¡        Placement-specific replacement

For each placement, the system replaces an article with another article.

For each placement you replace a sample article (for example, spectacles), which acts as a placeholder, with a real, operationally used article (for example, sunglasses: 12345 “Vogue”, black/brown). A replacement like this can apply to all layout module versions in which the article is assigned, or only to a few selected layout module versions.

You can use the sample implementation of the WRF_WLAY_X_WAREPL_E BAdI to restrict the articles to be replaced.

Some articles are only intended to be replaced with specific articles.

After you have made a selection, the system displays all the article assignments for a version. It is possible to restrict the selection to several layout modules.

At the point of copying, the system transfers the placement data for the articles to the new articles.

¡        Replacement in a layout module version

The system performs placement-specific replacement for a layout module version that has already been used, and contains one or more articles that are to be replaced. When it does this it displays all the existing article assignments for the selected layout module version. You can then perform placement-specific replacement of the existing article assignments.

·        You can reorganize layout module versions (see Reorganizing Layout Module Versions).