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Financial Operations
Departmental Financial Planning
View Job Results

Contents
View Results for Immediate Processing
Pre-Validation Only
Post to SAP
View Results for Background Processing

View Results for Immediate Processing

After the job is executed, the results are displayed on your screen.

Note

If the size of your our SAP session window was not maximized when you executed the upload, SAP will return an error message.

screen capture:  Upload Dept. Financial Planning prevalidation screen

Pre-Validation Only

If you selected Pre-Validation Only, a message reads "This is a simulation only: update is NOT made."

If there are errors, correct them in the spreadsheet file and redo the upload process.

If there are no errors, redo the upload process, this time selecting Post to SAP.

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Post to SAP

If you chose Post to SAP, the screen displays the same results as for Pre-Validation Only. If no errors are displayed, the update was successful.

If there are errors, correct them in the spreadsheet file and redo the upload process.

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View Results for Background Processing

After you have submitted an upload job to run in the background, you can check the results as follows:

1. Use the menu path or use the transaction code from any screen.

Menu Path:

System>>Services>>Jobs>>Job overview

Transaction Code:

/nsm37

The Simple Job Selection background jobs screen appears.

screen capture:  Simple Job Selection

 

2. Complete the following fields:

Field Name

Description

Job Name
(required)

Enter the job number you obtained from the "Background Processing" window.

Note

If you don't know the job number, leave the asterisk (*) in the Job name field. The system will list all the jobs processed by you between the dates specified in the "Start date" window of this screen. If no dates are entered, the system lists all jobs associated with the specified userid.

User name
(required)

Defaults to your userid.

Jobs status

You can select any of these criteria to further limit the jobs that should be displayed. If selected, SAP displays all your jobs:

Scheduled - Scheduled for processing
Released - Released for processing
Ready
- Ready for processing
Active
- Actively being processed
Finished
- Finished processing
Cancelled
- Cancelled due to internal process processing problems

Job start condition

 

Leave blank if you entered a job number in the Job Name field.

Otherwise, enter in the Fr. and To fields a span of date(s) and time(s) when you uploaded the file.

Leave the or after event field blank.

Job Step

Leave blank.

Note

If you need to be more specific with your selection, click the Extended job selection button on the function bar. The criteria are the same, but the you can be more specific with the parameters of your job selection if necessary.

 

3. Click the Execute button on the function bar.

Result: The "Job Overview" screen appears, displaying the job number you wrote down, or all job numbers based on the selection criteria you specified. The Status columns will read "Finished" when the job is done.

screen capture: Job Overview

Note

Click the Refresh button to see the current status of your job if it takes a long time to process.

4. When the job has finished processing, click on the job number.

5. Click the Spool list button button.

Result: The "Output contorller: List of Spool Requests" screen is displayed.

6. Click the selection box next to the spool number and click the Display button Display button.

Result: The "Graphical display of spool request..." screen displays your planning upload results.

Pre-Validation Only Results

Same as for Processing Immediately with an additional listing beginning with cost object.

Post to SAP Results

Same as for Processing Immediately with an additional listing beginning with cost object.

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You can check your posted plan amounts in SAP or change them if you need to. See Display a Plan or Change a Plan.

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