General Usage/ Detail about Process Chain

• Process chain (PC) is a sequence of processes linked together.
• Each Process have a type (BW activity, e.g., activate ODS) and a variant (contains parameters).
• Start process describes when the process will start (immediately, scheduled job, metaprocess, API).
• Connector is linking processes; you can choose 1 of 3 options of starting next process: when previous finishes with success (green arrow), failure (red) or always start the next process (black).
• Variant is a set of parameters passed to the process, such as the name of the InfoPackage to use for loading, the name of the InfoObject to perform a change run for.

Selected icon bar buttons:

• Planning view enables to create and modify processes.
• Checking view checks consistency of a process chain selected in plan view.
• Log view shows log of the execution of a process chain selected in plan view.

The picture below shows simple PC (loading transaction data into ODS and than into InfoCube).