Understanding the Work with Project Status Inquiry Program

You use the Work with Project Status Inquiry program (P51X0200) to specify the parameters to use to select the records that you want to view. You set options on the Display tab and specify column names on the Columns 1–20 and Columns 21–40 tabs. After you specify the selection parameters, you can preview the job records that the process includes in your data selection. You then process your selections so that the system includes the job and billing records according to the parameters that you set, including calculated values that are based on the parameters that you specify. After you process the records, you can view the results in the Project Status Inquiry form. You can process the data so that you can view it automatically after the system finishes processing, or you can process it so that the system creates a saved set of records that you can view at your convenience.

When you use the Work with Project Status Inquiry (P51X0200) program to select the data, you select column layouts or definitions, set date criteria, specify summarization and sequencing criteria, and then process the data selection. The system generates records in the Project Status Inquiry Worktable (F51X10) and launches the Project Status Inquiry program (P51X0210). You view the processed data in the Project Status Inquiry program.

You can set options on the Display, Columns 1–20, and Columns 21–40 tabs whether you want to view the records immediately after the system completes processing or whether you want to view the records at a later time. After you set data selection, click the View Now button to have the system open the Project Status Inquiry form immediately after it finishes processing the records, or click the View Later button to have the system complete the processing and save the records without opening the processed records. If you have the system save the records, you select the saved results in the Project Status Inquiry View program to open the Project Status Inquiry program and view them in that program.

This image illustrates the process of specifying job and billing data to view in the Project Status Inquiry form.