Use

The system can determine the date and time when a process message was created in the PI sheet. If you want to transfer these values directly to the process message, you set the indicator for automatic value assignment for the corresponding message characteristics in the process instruction.

Features

Basic Functions

The system can only automatically assign the date or time to the standard characteristics PPPI_EVENT_DATE and PPPI_EVENT_TIME.

You allocate the characteristics whose values are assigned automatically to the process instruction as follows:

The system determines the date and time when you maintain the process instruction in the PI sheet.

See also:

Process Data Request / Message Category - Example

Process Data Calculation Formula / Message Category - Example

Additional Functions

You cannot change characteristic values that have been assigned automatically in the PI sheet. However, you can display the message value in the PI sheet if you also mark the characteristic as an output value, see Output Values .

If you want to use the date or time in one of the succeeding process instructions of the same process order, you can define a variable that refers to the message characteristic; see Definition of Variables .