This function facilitates the structuring of complex service specifications during the processes of planning and recording external services. The system supports you in selecting precisely the subset of services that is relevant to your needs from a more comprehensive set of model specifications.
You must have created a configurable set of model service specifications with object dependencies. To do this, you use the components
CA Classification System
and
LO Variant Configuration
.
For more information, refer to CA Classification System , CA Characteristics and LO Variant Configuration .
The
Configuration at time of service selection
indicator must be set on the header screen of the model specifications.
Linking Specialized Knowledge to Model Specifications
Create a set of model service specifications with the maximum range of services to be performed.
Set the
Configuration at time of service selection
indicator on the header screen of the model specifications.
For more information, refer to Creating Model Service Specifications .
In the classification system (
), create characteristics and store characteristic values uniquely defining the services created in the model specifications.Assign the characteristics and their values to a class of type 301 (model specifications).
The instances of the service characteristics determine which service lines are selected with which quantities when service specifications are created.
In variant configuration (
Model specifications
and assign the class created to this profile.
Create object dependencies for each service line in the model specifications by clicking . Click to assign already existing object dependencies to a service. In doing this, you create rules that lead – depending on the characteristic values – to the selection of the individual service lines.
Configuring Service Specifications via Service Selection
Start the configuration process in the service specifications of a document by clicking
Service selection
.
Choose a configurable set of model service specifications.
The
Configuration at time of service selection
indicator must be set in the model specifications.
An editor guides you with suggestions through the characteristic value process to precisely that subset of services that you need to compile complete specifications for your concrete project. The system automatically determines which services are involved from the underlying object dependencies.
Note
If you wish to change field values during configuration, you must create an object characteristic that points to the fields of table ESLL.
For more information on the creation of object characteristics, see Creating Reference Characteristic s.
The system creates a concrete set of service specifications.
A set of model service specifications comprises the entire range of services that may be required in pipe-laying projects.
Within this complete range, there are services that are mutually dependent or mutually exclusive.
The work involved in laying pipes in a new housing estate will differ from that involved in laying pipes in existing residential areas, for example.
If cast-iron pipes are to be laid, the work involved in connecting up and pressure-testing the pipes differs from that which would be necessary if the pipes were made of steel.
At the same time, various jobs may not be necessary. If the pipes were laid in remote, wooded areas, for example, some of the work involved in fencing off the jobsite for safety reasons (necessary in residential areas) would be superfluous.