Category Archives: PI Sheet / Electronic Work Instruction

Dear XStep Café community! Recently an error was reported that massively affects loading and changing PI Sheets/Electronic Work Instructions (transaction CO60, CO60XT, and COEBR): The HTML control only displays the text ‘Loading…’ but the PI Sheet/EWI is not displayed. If the loading log is displayed no error messages are displayed. The message is missing that […]

In this article I show how to integrate material-dependent safety symbols into the PI Sheet.

A new OSS note (1453716) is available which includes a lot of new standard function modules you can use in your implementation.

The only way to archive PI Sheets and delete the corresponding database tables is to use the EBR functionality. For all other cases (Test PI Sheets or PP-based Electronic Work Instructions) archiving is not possible. However, deletion of old entries from the database becomes essential for maintainng the performance of the ERP system. In this article I describe a pilot note which solves this dilemma.

If you have assigned components to different phases or operations you may want to get an overview of all components regardless of their phase assignment at the start of the PI Sheet or Electronic Work Instruction. Here is the way how to do it.

There was a question by Maddy in the Topic Discussion section about the maximum number of table lines (more than 999) which I would like to answer here.

Since January 27th 2010 there is a new template on the SDN called Batch Manufacturing with SAP MII: The batch manucfacturing templates extend the SAP MII architecture by providing prebuilt, plant and role-specific composites to support manufacturing preparation, execution, documentation and reporting. Batch manufacturing with SAP MII delivers preconfigured templates for 9 application areas – […]

Once you have decided to enhance your PI Sheet with additional functionality using XSL/CSS you will find out that it is not so easy and quick to test your result using the ERP system itself (Downloading, uploading, maybe changing MIME types,…) It would be so much easier to try your changes on a local filesystem and […]

How to display the material description with 40 characters in the PI Sheet.

Discard PI Sheets from order

OPC

Customer Case: Abbott

Embedding MII Analytics

Characteristics and Process Messages

Electronic Batch Record (EBR)

Tabular values and function modules

Stylesheets

Weighing Scenario

BAdI für Symbols and Generation Scopes

Command & Events