Selection Profile - what is it and where is it used?

[Former Member]

Hi,

Kindly help to explain what a selection profile is and where it is used. (The configration is Project Systems > Structure > Operative Stucture > Milestones > Define Selection profiles.

I want to understand if we still need to set this up even if we do not use milestones.

Thanks!

Regards,

Vivian

[Former Member]

Dear Vivian,

if u r not using milestone then u do'nt need to do configure.

for more detail pls read following

Define Selection Profiles

In this menu option you define selection profiles that you can use to specify status combinations for selecting objects (for example, orders or operations). A selection profile is especially useful if you select a large number of objects repeatedly according to the same selection conditions (for example, orders for printing shop papers, for collective release, or for creating order valuations).

Selection procedure

The selection conditions are evaluated top-down. Here the following rule applies:

Several lines following one another that are linked by an OR are combined and evaluated together. From the block at least one selection condition must be fulfilled.

AND links blocks or individual conditions. All the blocks or individual conditions linked with AND must be fulfilled. An order is no longer part of the evaluation as soon as a block or individual condition is not fulfilled. That means that with every freshly inserted AND a bracket is inserted around the preceding expressions (conjunctive normal form). To select the desired status combinations a reforming of the selection conditions is necessary.

In general one can say that OR links more strongly than AND!

Example

You want to define a selection profile with which orders with the following status combinations are selected:

REL (released)

CRTD UND MACM (created and material committed)

To do this formulate:

REL OR (CRTD AND MACM)

But the system interprets:

(REL OR CRTD) AND MACM

Orders with the following status combinations are selected:

REL AND MACM

Thus the original formulation must be reformulated by "multiplying out" to:

(REL OR CRTD) AND (REL OR MACM)

Regards ,

Vivek Tripathi

[Former Member]

Hi,

If you are not using milestone, you need not do any config here.

Ofcourse, certain notification related customization is also done here. That will be taken care of by respective modules.

regards

Murali