Using the Multiple Selection Screen: An Example

Let's return to the scenario described at the start of this lesson. A warehouse manager wants to create a report of the available stock of 100 consumable materials by executing the MM60 transaction. The object codes for these materials are given in Table 11.1.

Table 11.1. Object codes for the scenario

Report on these materials	Exceptions to ranges
100500
361010
410885
638477
914242
200600-200620	but not 200615 and 200617
564400-564425	but not 564411 through 564417
711015-711115	but not 711035 through 711075

The manager would follow these steps to report the stock levels on all these materials in one transaction.

Step 1.	Click the Multiple selection button for the Material field (Figure 11.1D) to call up its multiple selection screen.
Step 2.	Click the green-lighted Single vals tab, and enter the five single codes in the left column of Table 11.1 in the first five single fields (Figure 11.7). This sets up the transaction to report the stock data for these five materials. Figure 11.7. Five object codes are entered on this green-lighted subscreen. The objects will be included in the output report of the MM60 transaction.
Step 3.	Click the green-lighted Ranges tab, and enter the three ranges of codes in the left column of Table 11.1 in the first three paired fields (Figure 11.8). This sets up the transaction to report the stock data for all the materials with codes within these three ranges. Figure 11.8. Three ranges of object codes are entered on this green-lighted subscreen. The objects with codes within these ranges will be included in the output report of the MM60 transaction.
Step 4.	Click the red-lighted Single vals tab, and enter the two exceptional single codes in the right column of the table in the first two single fields (Figure 11.9). This sets up the transaction to exclude these two materials from the report. Figure 11.9. Two object codes are entered on this red-lighted subscreen. The objects will be excluded from the output report of the MM60 transaction.
Step 5.	Click the red-lighted Ranges tab, and enter the two exceptional ranges of codes in the right column of the table in the first two open range fields (Figure 11.10). This sets up the transaction to exclude all materials with codes within these two ranges from the report. Figure 11.10. Two ranges of object codes are entered on this red-lighted subscreen. The objects with codes within these ranges will be excluded from the output report of the MM60 transaction.
Step 6.	Click the Copy button at the bottom of the Multiple Selection for Material screen (Figure 11.10A) to save the entries and return to the initial screen.
Step 7.	Continue the setup of the initial screen, then execute the transaction.

This is a fairly complex example of the use of a multiple selection screen, in that it uses all four subscreens to enter codes for objects to be included and excluded from the transaction. Generally, you might use one or two of the subscreens, not all four. We used this example to demonstrate that it is a relatively simple task to set up the screen for even such a complex task, and a great time saver to boot.