Ignore PPM Mode Linkage in Planning Board

Hello experts,
I have a a burning question here..
I'm working in a project whose using PPDS PPM with more than one activities, and multiple modes (for alternative resources). In the Activity Relationship, we define Mode Linkage as '3', so whenever we schedule an operation in Planning Board, the predecessor operation will be scheduled according to the mode relationship in PPM.
There is a requirement to break the 1-1 mode relationship for exceptional planning during short term period. Without changing the Mode Linkage, can we break the relationship in Planning Board using a specific PP/DS strategy?
*Hope my question is clear enough
Thanks
Yudhia

Hi Santosh,
Thanks for the reply.
When I changed the Order Int-Rel to Do Not Consider, I couldnt move any order (inlcuding dep.orders) to alternative resource.
So now, I'm using Order-Int.Rel = Always Consider and I have the flexibility to move it to alternative resource.
But the problem is that I think it always read the Mode Linkage in PPM. Whenever I move the dependant order to it's alternative resource, the parent order will also moved accoring to mode relationship.
Whereas the requirement it to break the relationship for exceptional case.
Regards
Yudhia

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Thanks for the response. I thought I had tried this but perhaps it's because in the UI profile I had not entered something in both the status groups for assignments and the status groups for demands. I have a bit more testing to do but it appears that the demand status now gets updated from the operation status of PCNF (linked to abstract status WORK_START) and CNF (linked to abstract status WORK_STOP). I also get a red bar (C4) for PCNF and a green bar (C1) for CNF. Do you have a better status group I should be using in place of C1 and C4? Status groups C1 and C4 give me a bar but it doesn't look like the demand bar with a outline and alphanumeric description of the demand, it's just a colored bar.
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Edited by: Mark Scott on Aug 10, 2009 3:35 PM

Hi Mark,
Well I assumed that you have confirmations integration active !! But I guess not because you say that the status is not integrated always.
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1) I assume you have SP05 or later.
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Implementing the user exit CONFPM05 might require some technical input. But it is easy. Just a few double clicks and copy paste.
Contact an ABAP developer for the same.
This should solve your issue.
Regards
Varun

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Hi Stephen...
I think you are going wrong...
From you post I understand that:
1) You have implemented the user exit EXIT_SAPLCORF_005.
Note: This is called when you enter the confirmation in IW41.
2) Your understanding here is right that you need to integrate this information into MRS and you can do it from the above user exit.
3) But you are wrong -- if you call the BADI here.
Note: BADI methods will not work if you call them arbitrarily anywhere !! They work only when called in a specified program flow.
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Regards
Varun.

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/MRSS/PLBOTIME -->
1. What I had seen before in two other systems is that the org.units that are associated with me as the Resource Planner would show up, as well as all other subordinate org.units, both resources and demands. In this system what I see is that the demands associated with subordinate org.units are not showing up, only the resources. I went into another system I have access to in order to confirm what I had been seeing.
2. Also, when launching the Planning Board using this transaction in other systems I had never seen a window pop up telling me there were "several valid resource planning nodes" and asking me to pick an org.unit from the list, it always just gave me the org.unit I was associated with plus any subordinate ones. (We upgraded to SP06 last night and this morning this window didn't pop up, instead it gave me the resources and demand for the org.unit I am the Resource Planner for, as well as those for subordinate org.units....weird.)
/MRSS/PLBOSRV --> Logical as you described is what I expected, however, what I was seeing was that the resources associated with the demands were not showing up. After a closer look what appears to be happening is that the selected demands are being brought into the Planning Board but no resources unless the resource has previously been assigned to the demand. In other words, resources associated with the work centers used in the operations (and their linked org.units) are not showing up in this Planning Board, they only show up if they had previously been assigned to a demand. I can, of course, manually bring in resources once I'm in this Planning Board. Is this what you meant?
/MRSS/PLBOORD --> I followed your logic of "if I am responsible for the parent org.unit then I am responsible for the lower org.units also". However, the logic escapes me as to why this only applies to resources and not demand. Regardless, as long as I know that's how it works then I can deal with it.
Mark
Edited by: Mark Scott on Aug 18, 2009 9:57 AM
Edited by: Mark Scott on Aug 18, 2009 6:18 PM
Edited by: Mark Scott on Aug 18, 2009 6:25 PM

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