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Function documentationRelationships on the Web UI

 

On the SAP Web UI for Plant Maintenance, this function enables you to use a graphical editor to create, change, and display relationships between operations in orders and task lists.

Prerequisites

You have activated the business function Simplified Management of EAM Functions 4.

Features

Relationships describe how operations are linked to one another in the process and determine their sequence. You can create and change relationships in maintenance orders and task lists using a table or a graphical editor. You can visualize the network of operations on the Relationships tab page. In the graphical editor for relationships, you have several navigation and search options:

  • On the left side of the screen there is a repository that contains all the operations of the current maintenance order or task list for which you have not yet created relationships. Each operation is displayed in a box that contains basic information about the operation, such as the operation number and the description.

  • You can drag and drop operations from the repository to your work space. To move all the operations to the work space, you can use the Transfer All pushbutton. In the work space, the boxes contain additional operation detail data such as the scheduling data (Earliest/Latest Start and Earliest/Latest End).

  • The various types of relationships are indicated by color-coded triangles on the side of the operation boxes:

    • Finish-start relationship (red triangle)

      The finish of an operation is linked to the start of the subsequent operation.

    • Start-start relationship (green triangle)

      The start of an operation is linked to the start of the subsequent operation.

    • Finish-finish relationship (yellow triangle)

      The finish of an operation is linked to the finish of the subsequent operation.

    • Start-finish relationship (blue triangle)

      The start of an operation is linked to the finish of the subsequent operation.

    You can create a network of the individual operations by connecting the triangles using drag and drop. This creates relationships in the graphic that the system copies to the table in the operation details. Choose an operation that you want to link to another operation and click on the triangle with the relationship you want to create. When you click on a triangle, keep holding your finger down until you have pulled the colored line to the operation you want to link to. To delete a relationship, put the cursor on the colored line and with a right mouse click choose Delete from the context menu.

    Note Note

    If you do not wish to link operations in orders or task lists with the start-finish relationship, you can define that this relationship can no longer be used in the Web UI. The blue triangle is then hidden in the graphical editor and in the tabular display of the operation details the start-finish relationship is no longer available in the input help for the table field Type. You can hide the start-finish relationship across the entire system or for specific users:

    • You can use the Business Add-In BAdI: Hide Start-Finish Relationship (EAMS4_HIDE_SF_REL) to hide the start-finish relationship across the entire system.

    • You can use transaction code EAM_USER to hide the start-finish relationship for specific users by selecting the Hide SF Relationship checkbox on the tab page EAMS Web UI. If the start-finish relationship is hidden system-wide, it cannot be displayed for specific users.

    You can only hide the start-finish relationship on the Web UI. If operations on the SAP GUI are linked by the start-finish relationship, you can also display and create start-finish relationships on the Web UI when you process these documents. This is even the case if the start-finish relationship on the Web UI is hidden either system-wide or user-specifically.

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  • When creating relationships between order operations, you can search for operations belonging to other maintenance orders and include them in the network of the order you are currently changing. To do so, open the search by choosing the Add External Operation pushbutton. Then enter an order number and select the appropriate operations. After you have confirmed your entries, these operations are available in your repository. The operation number has a * indicating that it belongs to a different order. The boxes contain both the operation number as well as the number of the order the operation belongs to.

    The relationships you create in the graphic are also displayed in the table. How they are displayed depends on the Relationship view you have configured in the default value profile for the order type. You make this setting in Customizing for Plant Maintenance and Customer Service under Start of the navigation path Maintenance and Service Processing Next navigation step Maintenance and Service Orders Next navigation step Functions and Settings for Order Types Next navigation step Create Default Value Profiles for General Order Data End of the navigation path. Depending on the Relationship view you have defined, the relationships between operations that belong to different orders are either listed in the order with the predecessor operation, in the order with the successor operation, or in both orders. In the graphic, the relationship can always be seen in both orders.

  • After you have created or changed relationships, you can choose the Refresh display pushbutton to arrange the linked operations in their logical sequence. At the same time, any operation boxes in the work space for which you have not created relationships are moved back to the repository.

  • After you have created or changed relationships, you can choose the Schedule pushbutton to reschedule the operations.

  • There are also pushbuttons for navigating within the graphic and searching for text strings.