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automated PI sheet printout - please assist

rob_smeets2
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Hi,

I've 'inherited' a system where PI sheet printout (directly after Process Order release) is printed out 'automatically' using a background job which basically does the following thing:

At every event 'SAP_NEW_CONTROM_RECIPES':

- RCOCB006 (but also copies all lines to table ZCOCH

- wait a few seconds

- batch input on CO56 for every line in ZCOCH & print; delete line from ZCOCH

Now in the upgrade of this system from 4.6B to ECC 6.0, I wonder if there's a way this whole process may be automated some other way.

Is there an 'ordinary' way of automating PI sheet printout?

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rob_smeets2
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Really nobody?

former_member184701
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friend, may be the following tip will help you to improve/fix the current process:

As of Release 4.6C or higher, the SAP ECC System provides the option of working with either ABAP list-based or browser-based PI sheets. Using the control recipe destination type in Transaction o10c, you can convert the PI sheets from the familiar format (ABAP list-based) to the standard layout of the browser-based PI sheet.

We recommend the browser-based PI sheet as used in this case.

good luck.

rob_smeets2
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Thanks. Are there any advantages as to printing the PI sheet? Because it's the automatic printing of the PI sheet we have a problem with...

We currently have a batch input with co56 where the 'print' button is pressed, but the abap list print dialog box has become a little too complex to allow easy batch input. That's where the current process fails.

Update: I tried to enable browser based pi sheets, but I'm at a loss with regard to opening them (they don't seem to appear in the CO55 list and can not be opened by CO56).

Any further info would be most welcome.

Edited by: Rob Smeets on Nov 9, 2009 1:18 PM

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Hello, Rob.

Browser based PI Sheet could be open using CO60. Test it and confirm.

Regarding the usefulness of printing PI Sheet, I think that PI SHeet has been developed to have a handful of information about the process on the operator PC , w/o printing them. Perhaps you can combine a printout of the process order form with a PI sheet.

Regards

rob_smeets2
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Hi dario,

I'll test co60 when I get back to my customer's site.

Meanwhile I'd like to clarify that they print out the PI sheet because this is a very dirty industry, they don't have computer terminals near the production area. They follow the process instructions and note down the process information on their printouts and afterwards some other person types it into SAP.

Former Member
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Rob:

if the industry has the characteristics you described, then it is advisable to discuss if the use of PI Sheets is really useful.

Perhaps the printing of forms related to process orders will be enough for the purpose of reading instructions and noting down some results.

PI Sheets are intended when the operator have a strong interaction with SAP and you want to avoid some papers & forms handling at the plant floor. It seems that it is not your case.

Regards

Former Member
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Hello SAP Gurus,

We just upgraded our SAP from 4.7 to 6.0 and now when we print our Web based PI sheets through CO60, it is cutting off the last columns. In SAP 4.7, column was not showing the whole description so it did fit nice on one page but now all the columns are spread out and don't fit on one page.

If any of you have encountered the problem then please let me know the fix.

Thanks in advance.