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Filter Tab

The Filter tab contains the criteria that should be applied in searching the reports of tasks or files.

Description

All filter definitions can contain the wildcard charactersThese are placeholders for characters when you specify filters. ? stands for exactly one character, * for any number of characters. "*" and "?". "*" stands for any characters, "?" for exactly one character. There is no need to use the * character at the beginning and the end because the search takes place within the specified term.

For each Filter objectAutomation Engine controlled activities and processes are structured in the form of objects. See also: Task, you can specify several different reports or files and you can also check several terms in each file/reportA report provides more detailed information about a task's execution or a component.. To insert Filter definitions, you click in a field (such as report - contains) and then you click the "+" button that appears to its right. A new line will automatically be inserted below the selected entry. To delete lines, you click "-".

Further important notes:

  Field/Element Description
Operation of the filter definitions  
AND operation All filter definitions must apply.
OR operation At least one filter definition must apply.
Filter definitions  
Report

Report type

The report must be stored in the AE databaseA database is an organized collection of data including relevant data structures.. Use the filter definition "File" if you store reports in the file system.

The selected operation setting is also valid if wildcard characters are used for the report type.

For example: 

The string "ERROR" is to be found in reports of type "S*".

All SAP reports are searched. The filter definition is met if "ERROR" is found in at least one SAP report (because of the OR operation).

  contains
does not contain

Any string.

The notation of the string is irrelevant because this field is case-insensitive.

You can determine whether trailing spaces of the string should be truncated or not in the variableIt stores or retrieves values dynamically at runtime. An individual Automation Engine object type. UC_SYSTEM_SETTINGS, setting GET_PROCESS_LINE_RTRIM. By default, these spaces are automatically removed.

File

File or filter for several files.

The selected operation setting is also valid if wildcard characters are used in the file name.

For example: 

The string "ERROR" is to be found in C:\Temp\*.txt.

The files a.txt and b.txt are available in the directory C:\Temp. An AND operation has been selected; therefore, the filter definitions are only met if "ERROR" exists in both files.

  contains
does not contain

Any string

Note that the search for files is case sensitive.

Registered Job Output

File or filter for several files.

This filter category can be used to check the content of external jobAn Automation Engine object type for a process that runs on a target system. output files. Filter objects that include definitions of this kind can only be used in combination with jobs.

The condition does not apply if the specified file cannot be found.

  contains
does not contain

Any string

 

 


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