Monitor - Working with the Object List

Definition

The monitor of the Schedule Manager is a tool for processing multilevel worklists. It contains information on active or completed jobs that were planned in the scheduler.

Use

This section provides information on using the object list in the monitor of the Schedule Manager.

For more information on jobs in the monitor, see Using the Monitor.

The monitor performs the following functions:

• Displays the available worklists and their processing steps
• Keeps track of the processing status of each object (such as product cost collectors, WBS elements, internal orders, and production orders) and each processing step
• Assists you in analyzing the causes of errors for the objects and processing steps
• Displays the processing status of objects (particularly for the objects with errors)
• Shows the hierarchical relationships between the objects
• Compares object hierarchies with each other
• Controls whether objects enter the next processing step
• Sends objects to the responsible person for further processing

You can set the processing status so that objects of negligible value, for example, are not reprocessed in a processing step even if errors are issued for the objects in that step. In this case, it is not necessary to remove the cause of the error.

Structure

The monitor is divided into the following screen areas:

Structure Tree with Worklists/Processing Steps/Jobs

The structure tree containing the worklists, processing steps and jobs is displayed on the left side of the monitor.

In the system, the worklists are updated separately for each scope of selection and processing step sequence. The processing step sequence is specified in the flow definition. You can view the worklists of the application component in which you are working, including their functions and objects.

The system displays the following information on each worklist:

• Number of objects in the worklist
• Processing steps
• Number of objects processed in each processing step
• Number of objects with errors in each processing step

Object List

The object list is located in the top right area of the screen. The object list can display one or more processing steps of a worklist. You select the processing steps in a worklist in the structure tree worklists/processing steps/jobs.

The object list includes the following information:

• The objects for the selected processing steps. You can control which objects are displayed for each processing step by means of a filter that takes the individual processing statuses into account. In application toolbar icons for object list, choose the icon Objects: Set status filter
  The system uses the last user-specific default setting of the dialog box. Note the default settings of this dialog window in the SAP standard system. The last user-specific setting of the dialog box is the default.
• The processing step performed for the object
• The processing status of the object for each processing step
• A check box you can select to indicate that you have processed the object in the worklist monitor
• The person responsible for the object (if any)

Message List

The message list is located in the lower right-hand portion of the screen. The message list displays messages for certain objects. You can use these messages to analyze the causes of error for each object and processing step.

See also:

Schedule Manager: Multilevel Worklist

Multilevel Worklist: Process Flow

For detailed information on using the monitor of the Schedule Manager, see the following section:

Processing Status of Objects and Processing Steps

Processing Worklists

Monitor - Monitoring Active and Completed Jobs

Definition

The monitor shows the information on an active or completed job that was scheduled in the scheduler.

Prerequisites

To enable the system to start jobs or job chains, you need to schedule them in the daily overview of the scheduler.

Features

To determine the current status of jobs that are still running, you can repeat the database selection.

If you only wish to see jobs with a certain status, you can hide the other statuses.

The monitor is divided into three areas:

Structure

• Structure tree

The structure tree displays the workflows (expanded into substeps) and jobs which ran at particular times, in chronological order.

You receive information on:

• The job status
• The job runtime
• The update status

Use the right mouse button to see the different functions available for this job, such as:

• Start transaction
• Restart report
• Goto object monitor in the generalized worklist, and so on.

For more detailed information on a job, double-click on the required entry in the structure tree. The detail view appears.

• Detail view of a job

By switching the tab titles you can select different detailed information (details, parameters, additional information) on a job.

There are four pushbuttons underneath the tab page. These are only active if corresponding data for the selected job is available:

• Spool list
  Display of batch spool list(s)
• Job log
  Display of the job log belonging to the batch job
• Extract
  Online display of results lists that were saved
• Basic list
  Online display of a short list that was saved. This list contains the most important information on a job.

• Message list

If messages occurred for a job and these were saved, then the system displays them in the message area.

To go to a message long text, double-click on the corresponding message.

Activities

From a scheduled job, you call up the monitor from the daily overview of the scheduler.

You call up the required details for a selected job.

See also:

Monitor - Working with the Object List

Using the Monitor

Use

The monitor shows the information on an active or completed job that was scheduled in the scheduler.

To improve performance and facilitate error rectification, use the multilevel worklist.

Integration

The monitor is part of the Schedule Manager.

Other components are:

• Flow definition

You can group tasks that are to be executed in the background in a particular order (and which are controlled by the workflow) into a flow definition.

• Scheduler

You can create individual tasks for business transactions (which for example, make up period-end closing) in the scheduler task list. By scheduling them in the daily overview, you enable the system to execute them.

Structure

For detailed information on the functions of the monitor, refer to:

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Monitor - Monitoring Active and Completed Jobs
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Monitor - Working with the Object List