Default Filter in Status Management

STATUS_FILTER

* effective from version 3.2.5 (extended in 3.3)

The selection of displayed objects can be restricted by the buttons in the section “Status overview” of the status management (e.g. display only objects that are already “active” or “closed”). If such additional filter is set, the button is displayed in grey to mark the actual choice.

In the standard case, no additional filter is set after object selection (corresponds to button “All”): the constant STATUS_FILTER, however, allows to set a default setting for the filter.

Example:

Often, all planning objects are adopted (activated) to the status management once before the start of the planning. During following calls, only the status of activated objects is of interest. Hence, it makes sense to activate the additional filter directly at the start.

The constant is activated with a three-character abbreviation in column Value from. The following entries are possible:

ALL  ---> Display all selected objects (Button function “All“)

INA  ---> Only inactive objects (i.e. without Allevo status)

OPE  --->Opened (Status 1)

ACD  --->In progress (Status 2)

PLA  --->Planned (Status 3)

CLO  --->Closed (Status 4)

REV  --->Reviewed (Status 5)

REL  --->Released (Status 6)

ACT  --->Active (with any Allevo status)

Thus, each abbreviation corresponds to one of the buttons/additional filters in status management.

New from version 3.3:

It is now possible to enter a default group in column Value to, in order to restrict selection in the status management beforehand. This is in case that the user did not include any selection parameters himself upon calling from the Allevo start transaction.

Background: With no default setting of the selection parameters, the status management would select using all objects of the current object type. This may (especially with internal orders and WBS elements) concern a great number of objects and result in a long runtime.