Call Up the Alert Monitor 

Use

You can call up the Alert Monitor in the DS planning board.  By doing this, you can display scheduling problems; for example, a resource overload. The following table summarizes for which objects the system creates alerts.

Objects for which the system creates alerts in the DS planning board

DS planning board	The system creates alerts for the following:
Called up directly	·         The resources and products in the propagation range ·         The resources that are defined in the various views in the work area ·         The products and orders that you entered in the work area
Called up in order processing	·         The order you are currently processing ·         The resources and products for the order
Called up in the product planning table	·         The resources and products that are displayed in the product planning table ·         The orders for these products ·         The orders that are processed at these resources

·         You can also display particular scheduling problems directly in the planning board by customizing the graphical objects accordingly: You can, for example, specify that delayed orders are displayed graphically in a different way to orders that are on time.  For more information, see Detailed Scheduling Planning Board (DS Planning Board).

·         In the planning board, you can highlight graphical objects that are affected by alerts depending on the alert type; that is, depending on whether there is an error, a warning or information for this object.

Prerequisites

You have defined a PP/DS alert profile for the Alert Monitor using the alert types that are relevant for your scheduling with the DS planning board and are entered in the following places:

·        For the DS planning board that is called up directly, you specify the PP/DS alert profile in the initial screen of the DS planning board or in the overall profile. If you do not specify an alert profile, all alerts are displayed.

·        If you want to call up the DS planning board in the order view or in the product planning table, you enter the PP/DS alert profile in Customizing for the order view or the product planning table.

Procedure

To call up the Alert Monitor, choose Extras → Alert Monitor.