Coloring orders and contracts based on priority
It is possible to apply colors to the display of orders and contracts, to indicate their priority. Priority order coloring is especially useful if you are working with Service Level Agreements (including KPIs, such as time to react (TTR) and time to complete (TTC)).
In the Work Orders and Contracts TSIs you can activate the coloring feature on the elements list using the Show color based priority toggle button. The Date-time coloring field on the order and the contract can be used to display a reference to the coloring scheme.
 | For more information on the toggle button and the Date-time coloring field on orders and contracts, refer to the Work Orders and Contracts documentation. |
Procedure
1. In Priority coloring, click Business object definition.
2. Select a user-defined contract type or order type from the list, for example Move order.
Coloring can only be defined on user-defined business objects.
3. Go to Priority order coloring for orders.
4. Click Add on the action panel.
Complete the fields in the data section. For a description of these fields, see the following table:
Field | Description |
|---|---|
Business object definition | Select a business object definition from the list. |
Priority | The priority has a prefilled value, but you can modify it. You can create a maximum of 10 priorities per user-defined type. It is recommended to limit the number of priority coloring settings, as performance in the Work Orders TSI may be affected by large numbers of coloring settings. |
Description | Enter a description for the color priority setting. |
Lower range value in working minutes | Enter a lower range value in minutes. Use negative values for orders / contracts that need to be colored in the past. A time range is unique. You cannot create another range with the identical values. It is also possible to set non-continuous ranges. |
Upper range value in working minutes | Enter an upper range value in minutes. |
Color | Select a color from the palette. Orders: The orders that have to be picked up / completed etc. within the specified range are colored with the selected color. Contracts: The contracts whose next notice date falls within the specified range are colored with the selected color. |
5. Click Save.
A new Priority coloring range is created. With these Priority coloring settings, the orders' descriptions are displayed in different colors in the Work Orders TSI after clicking the Show color based priority toggle button.
| | You can also copy a priority coloring setting from one user-defined business object to another, using the Copy to action, provided that this user-defined business object belongs to a different system type. |