Parameter

Description

Variables Screen

You use this parameter to specify whether to display a Variables screen. If you do not select this option, the variable screen is displayed only if no entry has been made for required variables.

Process Changed Data

You use this parameter to define whether the planning functions in this planning sequence will process just the data changed by the user in the current session since the last save or process all data (see Planning Functions, Processing Changed Data). If you choose this option, you can specify which aggregation level to analyze as a filter to define the changed records.

After the planning sequence has been executed, all subsequently changed data counts as having been completed by all participating planning functions (the steps in this sequence). This means for example that the data created by the last step of a sequence does not count as changed if the first step is executed again. If a button that just starts a planning sequence, “Check the Changed Data" for example, is executed several times in quick succession, the system does not process any data for the repeat executions.

Data Binding: Variant

If the planning function uses variables, you can use this parameter to specify how they will be filled. Using a variable variant, you therefore specify the parameterization of the planning function. (See Sources for Characteristic Selection and Variables.)

Data Binding: Variables

You use this parameter to specify the values for individual variables of the planning function. If a variant is also selected, a value assigned using this parameter is given precedence. (See Sources for Characteristic Selection and Variables.)

Planning Sequence (PLANNING_SEQUENCE)

Technical name of the planning sequence. You use this parameter to specify which planning sequence is to be executed.