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Message destinations are defined in Customizing independently of a specific message or message category. They can be assigned to a message in two ways:

  • In Customizing via the message category

  • By direct assignment to the individual message when it is created

Destinations for Message Categories

If all messages of a message category need to be sent to a destination, you can assign this destination to the message category in Customizing. Process management sends every process message to all the destinations assigned to the respective message category.

In the case of ABAP/4 tables and SAP function modules, the system supports the transfer of individual message characteristics to specific target fields within the message destination. The corresponding settings are also made in Customizing for the message category.

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Destinations for Individual Messages

If you assign destinations to individual messages, you can use the same message category to send messages to different destinations. For example, you can use the same message category to inform different mail users of different events during the production run.

Destinations can be assigned to individual messages:

  • If the message category has been set up in Customizing for sending via the destination PI07

  • If the values of the message characteristics do not have to be transferred to specific target fields within the message destination

PI07 is a message destination defined by SAP which can pass on messages to other destinations defined in the message itself. You assign a destination in the individual process message by entering the name of the destination as a value for a characteristic reserved for this purpose in the message category.

Assigning message characteristics to destination-specific target fields is not possible in this case.

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If a message destination is assigned both to the message category in Customizing and to the individual process message, the message is sent only once to the destination and a corresponding entry is made in the message log.