Mass Maintenance

Set Tables to Store Posting Feedback

After a request has been posted, Mass Maintenance creates a post message and a post fail indicator for each posted record. To customize posting feedback for Mass Maintenance-generated and custom data entry pages, a Template Administrator can set, at the template level, the tables that Mass Maintenance should update with this data.

If a Mass Maintenance template is associated with a multi-template Integrate process, the Post Message Table settings must be updated. The Template Administrator must assign an Integrate Template ID to each Post Error Column and Post Message Column combination.  If this Integrate Template ID is not assigned, the user cannot know which template in the multi-template process failed.

For example, a user in Integrate creates four Integrate templates, one for each update to a single attribute in material master basic data. These templates are combined into one Integrate process (called a multi-template process).

A Template Administrator then creates a template in Mass Maintenance that captures all the data to provide to the four Integrate templates on a single record.

On the Template (Post Message Tables) page in Mass Maintenance, a user must associate the post message table for each Post Error Column and Post Message Column combination with its respective Integrate Template ID.

Refer to Post Request Data to the Target ERP System for more information.

NOTE: To set tables for posting feedback, the template must not be active or must be in Developer Mode. Refer to Modify an Active Template in Developer Mode for more information.

NOTE: A Post Message table must be defined on the Template (Post Message Table) page (Team > Templates > Vertical View > Configuration > Post Message Tables). This page must have a record for the Data Entry table that contains the column where the returned Post Message is stored. If the Post Message table is not defined, an error displays when a user clicks Post on the Request (Roles) page and the posting process stops.

To set the tables to store posting feedback:

  1. Click Team in the Navigation pane.
  2. Click Templates for a team.
  3. Click Vertical View for a template.
  4. Click Configuration tab.
  5. Click Post Message Tables.

  6. Click Add.

    View the field descriptions for the Template (Post Message Tables) page.

  7. Select a data source from the DATA SOURCE list box.

    NOTE: The DATA SOURCE contains the table to be updated with the posting message and post error indicator.

  8. Select a table name from the TABLE NAME list box.

    NOTE: The TABLE NAME is the table to be updated with the posting message and post error indicator.

  9. Select a column from the POSTING PRIMARY KEY COLUMN list box.

    NOTE: The POSTING PRIMARY KEY COLUMN is the column on the table that contains the values marked as the Primary Key column in Integrate for the Integrate Process registration.

  10. Select a column from the POST ERROR COLUMN list box.

    NOTE: The POST ERROR COLUMN is the column on the table to which the post error indicator should be written.

  11. Select a column from the POST MESSAGE COLUMN list box.

    NOTE: The POST MESSAGE COLUMN is the column on the table to which the post messages should be written.

  12. Select a template ID from the INTEGRATE TEMPLATE ID list box, if needed.

    NOTE: This option must be selected for each Post Error Column and Post Message Column combination if the Mass Maintenance template is associated with an Integrate mutli-template process.

  13. Click Save.