SAP Forms

1. Click the Filter button on the toolbar of the Criteria Profiles dialog to open a pane on the right hand side displaying all the filter possibilities.
2. You can restrict the profiles to a particular Type.
3. You can enter a Description or part of a description. This field uses implicit wildcards at the beginning and at the end of the string you enter. For example, entering DB_BACKUP actually triggers the filter for *DB_BACKUP*.

4. By default, the Time Frame filter is set to No Time Frame. If you want to restrict the profiles displayed to those that were last modified within a specific time period, open the dropdown list and select Time Frame.

   Do one of the following

   • Activate From/To and select the time frame:

     1. Either type the date and time or click the icon to open the calendar view.
     2. Use the arrows at the top of the calendar view to select the month.
     3. Click on the date.
     4. Use the buttons at the bottom of the calendar view to specify a time.
     5. Do the same to define the end of the time frame.
   • Activate Last and specify the point in time on which the time frame begins. The end time is always the current timestamp.
5. Click the Filter button to apply it.

Once you have filtered the contents of the list you can toggle off the Filter and leave more room for the remaining panes.

• To Add Profiles

  1. Click the Add button on the toolbar.
  2. On the Add Profile dialog, select a Type. Available type are:
     • Event History Reorg
     • Event History
     • Job Interception
  3. Optionally, enter a description that helps you identify the event later on.
  4. Click Add to insert it in the list.

• To Remove Profiles

  Select the profile and click the Delete button on the toolbar. A dialog is displayed that prompts you to confirm your action.

• To Duplicate Profiles

  When duplicating profiles you cannot change the profile Type. You can (but must not) enter a new description; a duplicated profile gets a new ID and is therefore unique. Then, you can modify its criteria and conditions.

  1. Select the profile and click the Duplicate on the toolbar.
  2. Optionally on the Duplicate Profile dialog enter a new Description.
  3. Click Duplicate to insert it in the list.
  4. Modify its criteria and conditions on the panes below.

Select a profile from the list and click Activate/Deactivate on the toolbar. Activated profiles display a tick in the Status column. There can be only one active profile per type.

• To Add Criteria

  1. Select a profile from the list and select an operator from the bottom left pane. This activates the button on the toolbar.
  2. Click it.
  3. Select Criterion from the menu that opens up.

  The available options depend on the job type of the criteria profile.

  For event history reorg, the options are:

  • EVENTSTATE
  • EVTTIMESTAMP

  For event history, the options are:

  • EVENTID
  • EVENTPARM

  For job interception, the options are:

  • AUTHCKMAN
  • JOBCLASS
  • JOBNAME
  • SDLUNAME
  4. Enter the name of the new criterion on the Add dialog.
  5. Click Add.

  The criterion is inserted in the list right below the operator (AND or OR) you have previously selected; this means that it will be combined with the rest of the criteria in the profile using that operator. Additionally, a new row is added to the right pane, where you can start adding values to the criterion. Add and assign values to as many criteria as you need and combine them to define the dependencies that make up the profile.

• To Remove Criteria

  1. Select a criterion from the bottom left pane.
  2. Click on the toolbar.
  3. A dialog prompts you to confirm that you want to remove it. Click Remove.

• To Rename Criteria

  1. Select a criterion from the bottom left pane.
  2. Click on the toolbar.
  3. On the dialog that opens up enter the new name for the criterion and click Rename.

• To Add a Field

  1. On the bottom left pane select the criterion to which you want to add conditions.
  2. Click on the right pane.

  3. Define the first field and its value as follows:

     1. Click the cell in the Criteria Field column to activate it.
     2. Click on the arrow to expand the options; the content of this list is retrieved from your SAP system. Select the required field.
     3. Click the cell in the Relation column to activate it and either select or start typing the name of the operator.

     Options are:

     • Single Value
     • Not Equal to
     • Equal or greater
     • Greater Than
     • Equal or less
     • Less Than
     • Range
     • Outside Range
     • Contains Pattern
     • Does not contain pattern
     • Single Value (exclude)
     • Not Equal to (exclude)
     • Equal or greater (exclude)
     • Greater Than (exclude)
     • Equal or less (exclude)
     • Less Than (exclude)
     • Range (exclude)
     • Outside Range (exclude)
     • Contains Pattern (exclude)
     • Does not contain pattern (exclude)
     4. Click the cell in the Single Value/Lower Limit column and enter the value to be evaluated. This field determines the single value or if in a range, the lower limit. This is mandatory.
     5. Optionally, click the cell in the Upper Limit column and enter the value to be evaluated. This field determines the upper limit when Single Value/Lower Limit is used to specify the lower limit of a range.
     6. Repeat these steps with as many fields as you want to specify for the criterion. You can copy/paste entries and modify them.

• To Remove a Field

  Select a row and click on the toolbar.

• To Copy/Paste Fields

  1. Select one or more criteria and click .
  2. Click .

  The selected criteria are added at the bottom of the list.

1. Open the Process page of the SAP Job object.

2. Click the button to toggle the Form view on.

   The Commands pane is displayed on the right hand side. This is where you build the SAP script using predefined commands.

3. Click Add Command to open a dialog that displays all the available commands arranged in groups.

4. Select the required one. You have two options:

   • Scroll through the list and expand the command group where the required one is located.

   • In the Search field at the top of the dialog start writing any word that is contained in the name of the command you need. The list below displays the commands that have the entered string in their names. For example:

     

5. Click the Add Command button at the bottom of the dialog.

   The command is inserted on the pane and the corresponding input and selection fields are displayed on the main page.

6. Populate the fields as required.

   With an active connection you can retrieve values from the SAP system. For this purpose, click where available.

7. Continue adding commands and entering values until you have finished building the script.
8. Save your changes.

Switch to the Script Editor view; the commands and the values you have specified are also inserted here.

1. On the Commands pane, right-click on the command you want to duplicate.
2. A context-menu is displayed. Select Duplicate.
3. The new, duplicated command is inserted immediately below the original one. All settings and selections made in the original command are also available in the new one.
4. Save your changes.

On the Commands pane do one of the following:

• Click the recycle bin icon on the command label.
• Right-click on the command and select Remove.

The Form view allows to rearrange the order of the commands, whether SAP-specific or not, by dragging and dropping them. The commands in the Script editor are rearranged accordingly.

1. On the Commands pane, click on a command or on a non-SAP statement to select it.

2. Hold the mouse button to drag and drop it to the position where you need it.

   For example, the screenshot below shows how the Create a New Variant command is being dragged from the bottom of the commands list to a position between the two non-SAP statements:

   

3. Save your changes.

When building a script, you can import code that is already available in jobs in the SAP system.

1. Select the command after which you want to insert the job steps you want to import.
2. On the Commands pane click the Import Job button.
3. The Choose Job Name dialog is displayed, where you can search for the required job.
4. Click OK.
5. The required commands are inserted immediately after the selected command. The Search pane on the right allows you to filter and restrict the number of jobs that are displayed on the list.
6. Select the appropriate job and click Choose to close the dialog.

The imported lines of code are inserted right after the command you had selected, both in the script and in the Forms view.

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