Selecting or Highlighting Ops. Belonging Together 

Prerequisites

Operations that belong together are operations that have those properties that you specify. For example, they have the same material number or the same latest start date.

You can do the following online on the planning table with operations that belong together:

  • Highlight them for a better overview
  • Select them, for example to dispatch them together

You use a selection key to define the selection criteria that the system is to use to group operations together. You can read about how to create a selection key and specify selection criteria in Defining Operations that Belong Together.

You determine the display of the selected operations using the options profile. You should also read Profile for the Capacity Planning Table.

Procedures

  1. Choose a Selection key and specify the selection fields.
  2. Select an operation on the capacity planning table by clicking on it.
  3. Choose

− Edit → Highlight → Objects belonging together or

− Edit → Select → Objects belonging together

The system selects and marks all operations that, like the selected operations, have the properties specified in the selection key.

If you have selected the material number and the latest start date in the selection key as selection fields, then all operations are selected/highlighted that have the same material number and the same latest start date as the selected operation.

You can delete the selection/highlighting of the operations using Edit → Select → Deselect all or Edit → Highlight → Deselect.

Note the difference between Select and Highlight: Functions such as dispatching can only be carried out on selected objects.