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<Session ID="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1100m000" xml:lang="en">
	<Header>
		<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Solutions (ttpmc1100m000)</Title>
		<Keyword ContextSensitive="No"><Level1>PMC</Level1>
			<Level2>solution</Level2>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword ContextSensitive="No"><Level1>PMC</Level1>
			<Level2>obsolete solution</Level2>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword ContextSensitive="No"><Level1>solution</Level1>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword ContextSensitive="No"><Level1>solution</Level1>
			<Level2>obsolete solution</Level2>
		</Keyword>
	</Header>
	<HelpTopic xml:lang="en"><AimSection><Paragraph class="Default">You can use this Use this session to maintain solutions.</Paragraph>
		</AimSection>
		<GeneralSection><Paragraph class="Default">The scope of this session covers the life cycle of a solution from the solution's creation to the solution's release. In this session, you can maintain the basic data of a solution.</Paragraph>
			<Paragraph class="Default">You can use this session to change the status of a solution manually under certain conditions.</Paragraph>
			<Note><SectionTitle>
                                    Note
                                 </SectionTitle>
				<Paragraph class="Default">Check out and check in is not restricted to the Current Package VRC. You can check out or check in all components for which you are authorized.</Paragraph>
				<List><ListIntro>For check out you need the following authorizations:</ListIntro>
					<ListItem>VRC authorization</ListItem>
					<ListItem>Module authorization</ListItem>
					<ListItem>Language authorization</ListItem>
					<ListItem>Authorization for components of which you are not the developer. These authorizations are specified in the Developer Authorizations Template.</ListItem>
				</List>
				<Paragraph class="Default">For check in the same authorizations are required. You can only check in components that were checked out by yourself.</Paragraph>
				<Paragraph class="Default">The check out and check in functionality displays a message with the number of components for which you are not authorized.</Paragraph>
			</Note>
			<Figure space-and-orientation="indented-estimated"><FigIntro>The following figure shows the <GUIRef href="" role="manual">Overview</GUIRef> session:</FigIntro>
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			<Figure space-and-orientation="indented-estimated"><FigIntro>The following figure shows the <GUIRef href="" role="manual">Solution</GUIRef> tab of the details session:</FigIntro>
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			<Figure space-and-orientation="indented-estimated"><FigIntro>The following figure shows the <GUIRef href="" role="manual">Statistics</GUIRef> tab of the details session:</FigIntro>
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		</GeneralSection>
		<RelatedTopics><SectionTitle>
                                 Related topics
                              </SectionTitle>
			<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/tt/onlinemanual/pmc_introduction" role="manual">PMC introduction</Link>
			</RelTopic>
			<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/tt/onlinemanual/pmc_overview" role="manual">PMC overview</Link>
			</RelTopic>
			<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/tt/onlinemanual/pmc_distributor_procedure" role="manual">PMC distributor procedure</Link>
			</RelTopic>
		</RelatedTopics>
	</HelpTopic>
	<Fields><FieldHelp ID="ttpmc100.vers" OtherIDs="ttpmc100.rele ttpmc100.cust"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Base VRC</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>A means in PMC to identify products in a unique way. Updates at the distributor side are provided with the base VRC identifier. A base VRC can contain the code of the physical VRC in which the related master product is installed, for example, B61_a, but can also be a code not related to a physical VRC, for example, 7.6_a_tt. At the recipient side, every update VRC is linked to a base VRC identifier. The installation process checks if the base VRC identifier of the update matches with the base VRC identifier of the update VRC. If not, you cannot install the update in that update VRC.</FuncDesc>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="ever" OtherIDs="erel ecus"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Export VRC</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>The physical VRC from which components that belong to a PMC solution must be exported at the PMC distributor side. Each <Link href="/baanerp/tt/glossary/glossary#100249" role="glossary">base VRC</Link> has an export VRC linked, so components for different products are exported from different physical VRCs.</FuncDesc>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="bcmb"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Base VRC Combination</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>A <Link href="/baanerp/tt/glossary/glossary#100249" role="glossary">Base VRC</Link> combination is defined at the PMC distributor side and consists of a set of related base VRCs. A base VRC combination controls the creation of co-requisites between base VRCs. You can only define co-requisites between base VRCs that are part of the same base VRC combination. Base VRC combinations prevent the unwanted creation of co-requisites between base VRCs.</FuncDesc>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="ttpmc100.csol" OtherIDs="ttpmc100.desc"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Solution Code</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>A unique identification of the solution in a <Link href="/baanerp/tt/glossary/glossary#100249" role="glossary">base VRC</Link>.</FuncDesc>
			<SimpleSection><List><ListIntro>The solution code has the following characteristics:</ListIntro>
					<ListItem>Datatype: alpha-numerical string.</ListItem>
					<ListItem>Maximum length: 14 characters.</ListItem>
					<ListItem>Forbidden characters: All characters that have a special meaning in UNIX, such as $, *, and so on. If you enter a forbidden character, the code will not be accepted.</ListItem>
				</List>
			</SimpleSection>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="ttpmc100.obsl"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Obsolete Solution</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>This check box identifies a solution as an <Link href="/baanerp/tt/glossary/glossary#obsolete_solution" role="glossary">obsolete solution</Link>.</FuncDesc>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="ttpmc100.dsta"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Status</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>The following statuses describe the progress of the maintenance of solutions, <Link href="/baanerp/tt/glossary/glossary#100257" role="glossary">Collections</Link>, and <Link href="/baanerp/tt/glossary/glossary#100256" role="glossary">patches</Link>. To keep the descriptions readable, only solutions are described. However, in each case, collections and patches are intended as well, unless explicitly excepted.</FuncDesc>
			<SimpleSection><Paragraph class="Default">The status of the solution is only used at the distributor side. A history of status changes is recorded in the <GUIRef href="" role="manual">Maintenance History</GUIRef> table.</Paragraph>
				<Paragraph class="Default">To distinguish maintained solutions at the distributor side from imported solutions at the recipient side, the status is cleared when the solution is imported. This also applies to patches, but not to collections. The reason is that a collection is not known as such at the recipient side. Only the solutions contained in the collection are known at the recipient side.</Paragraph>
				<List><ListItemHead>In progress</ListItemHead>
					<ListItem>The initial status of the solution upon creation.</ListItem>
					<ListItemHead>Dependencies defined</ListItemHead>
					<ListItem>The dependencies between the various solutions are defined, and the solution is ready to be exported. You must select this status manually, because you might want to create dependencies that cannot be created automatically.</ListItem>
					<ListItemHead>Exported</ListItemHead>
					<ListItem>The solution is exported. The system handles this status. You cannot set the status manually. However, you can set a solution with the status Exported back to In Progress, Solved, Completed, or Dependencies Defined. If you change anything in an exported solution, the status is always set back to Dependencies Defined, and you must export the solution again. Before you can release a solution, the status must be Exported.</ListItem>
					<ListItemHead>Released</ListItemHead>
					<ListItem>The solution is released, which means that the solution is frozen. You can no longer change anything in the solution. To release a solution, you must change the status from Exported to Released, and you must save the solution with this status.</ListItem>
				</List>
			</SimpleSection>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="ttpmc100.gsol"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Patch</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>If the solution is also part of a <Link href="/baanerp/tt/glossary/glossary#100256" role="glossary">patch</Link>, the patch code appears in this field.</FuncDesc>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="ttpmc100.publ"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Published</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>
                                 If this check box is selected,, the solution is published immediately upon release. If a solution is published, the solution is copied to the directory specified in the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc0100s000#ttpmc000.ppub" role="formfield">Path for Published Solutions</Link> field in the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc0100s000" role="session">Parameters (ttpmc0100s000)</Link> session.</FuncDesc>
			<Note><SectionTitle>
                                    Note
                                 </SectionTitle>
				<Paragraph class="Default">If the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc0100s000#ttpmc000.cpub" role="formfield">Copy Published Solutions</Link> check box in the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc0100s000" role="session">Parameters (ttpmc0100s000)</Link> session is cleared, the solution cannot be published, regardless of the selection of the current check box.</Paragraph>
			</Note>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="txtn.yn"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Text</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>If this If this check box is selected,, a text appears with additional information. Click <GUIRef href="" role="manual">Text</GUIRef> to add, read, or change the text.</FuncDesc>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="patch.code" OtherIDs="patch.code.desc"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Patch</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>The code of the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/glossary/glossary#100256" role="glossary">patch</Link> to which a solution can be linked.</FuncDesc>
			<Note><SectionTitle>
                                    Note
                                 </SectionTitle>
				<Paragraph class="Default">To select a patch for this field, you must start the current session from the <GUIRef href="" role="manual">Specific</GUIRef> menu of the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1501m000" role="session">Patches (ttpmc1501m000)</Link> session.</Paragraph>
			</Note>
		</FieldHelp>
	</Fields>
	<FormCommands><CommandHelp ID="exec.user.0"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Defects by solution</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>Starts the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1110m000" role="session">Defects by Solution (ttpmc1110m000)</Link> session.</FuncDesc>
		</CommandHelp>
		<CommandHelp ID="ttpmc1400m000"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Print Solution/Patch</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>Starts the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1400m000" role="session">Print Solution/Patch (ttpmc1400m000)</Link> session.</FuncDesc>
		</CommandHelp>
		<CommandHelp ID="ttpmc1460m000"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Print Maintenance History</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>Starts the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1460m000" role="session">Print Maintenance History (ttpmc1460m000)</Link> session.</FuncDesc>
		</CommandHelp>
		<CommandHelp ID="ttpmc1440m000"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Print Dependencies (Multi-level)</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>Starts the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1440m000" role="session">Print Dependencies (Multilevel) (ttpmc1440m000)</Link> session.</FuncDesc>
		</CommandHelp>
		<CommandHelp ID="exec.user.1"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Components by solution</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>Starts the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1520m000" role="session">Components by Solution (ttpmc1520m000)</Link> session.</FuncDesc>
		</CommandHelp>
		<CommandHelp ID="exec.user.7"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Check-in</Title>
			</Header>
			<GlossaryEntry Version="7.2a" ContextApps="tt" ID="/baanerp/tt/glossary/glossary#checki.tt"><Term>Check in</Term>
				<Definition>A process that releases the checked-out software component and copies the software component from the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/glossary/glossary#dvrc.tt" role="internal">Development VRC</Link> to the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/glossary/glossary#ovrc.tt" role="internal">Original VRC</Link>. This process also stores a historical version.</Definition>
				<SimpleSection><Paragraph class="Default">A revision text for the changed software component is required for a check-in process.</Paragraph>
				</SimpleSection>
			</GlossaryEntry>
		</CommandHelp>
		<CommandHelp ID="exec.user.6"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Check-out</Title>
			</Header>
			<GlossaryEntry Version="7.2a" ContextApps="tt" ID="/baanerp/tt/glossary/glossary#checko.tt"><Term>Check out</Term>
				<Definition>A process that locks the software component for other developers. During the check-out phase, other related components are locked as well while the component can be updated and tested. A copy of the component is made from the original VRC to the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/glossary/glossary#dvrc.tt" role="glossary">Development VRC</Link>.</Definition>
			</GlossaryEntry>
		</CommandHelp>
		<CommandHelp ID="exec.user.2"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Dependencies</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>Starts the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1140m000" role="session">Dependencies (ttpmc1140m000)</Link> session.</FuncDesc>
		</CommandHelp>
		<CommandHelp ID="generate.dependencies"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Generate Dependencies</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>Starts the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1240s000" role="session">Generate Dependencies (ttpmc1240s000)</Link> session and sets the status to <GUIRef href="" role="manual">Dependencies Defined</GUIRef>.</FuncDesc>
		</CommandHelp>
		<CommandHelp ID="validate.solution"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Validate Solution</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>Starts the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1404s000" role="session">Validate Solution (ttpmc1404s000)</Link> session.</FuncDesc>
			<SimpleSection><Paragraph class="Default">This option validates a solution before the real export. It checks, for example, if components are available, or if components are not compiled in debug mode, and so on.</Paragraph>
			</SimpleSection>
		</CommandHelp>
		<CommandHelp ID="exec.user.8"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Link Solution to Patch</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>Links the solution to the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/glossary/glossary#100256" role="glossary">patch</Link> that appears in the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1100m000#patch.code" role="formfield">Patch</Link> field.</FuncDesc>
			<SimpleSection><Paragraph class="Default">This option is only available if the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1100m000#patch.code" role="formfield">Patch</Link> field displays a patch that is not yet released. The solutions you want to link must be released.</Paragraph>
				<Paragraph class="Default">This option is only available if you start the current session from the <GUIRef href="" role="manual">Specific</GUIRef> <GUIRef href="" role="menu">Specific</GUIRef> menu of the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1501m000" role="session">Patches (ttpmc1501m000)</Link> session.</Paragraph>
				<Paragraph class="Default">A solution can only be part of one patch.</Paragraph>
			</SimpleSection>
		</CommandHelp>
		<CommandHelp ID="exec.user.9"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Remove Solution from Patch</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>Removes the solution from the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/glossary/glossary#100256" role="glossary">patch</Link> that appears in the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1100m000#patch.code" role="formfield">Patch</Link> field.</FuncDesc>
			<SimpleSection><Paragraph class="Default">This option is only available if the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1100m000#patch.code" role="formfield">Patch</Link> field displays a patch that is not yet released. To select a patch, you must start the current session from the <GUIRef href="" role="manual">Specific</GUIRef> <GUIRef href="" role="menu">Specific</GUIRef> menu of the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1501m000" role="session">Patches (ttpmc1501m000)</Link> session.</Paragraph>
			</SimpleSection>
		</CommandHelp>
		<CommandHelp ID="exec.user.3"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Export solution</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>Starts the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1200s000" role="session">Export Solution/Patch (ttpmc1200s000)</Link> session.</FuncDesc>
			<SimpleSection><Paragraph class="Default">This option is only available if the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1100m000#ttpmc100.dsta" role="formfield">Status</Link> of the solution is <GUIRef href="" role="manual">Dependencies Defined</GUIRef>. Note that the session that starts has no user interface, and that the solution is exported immediately.</Paragraph>
			</SimpleSection>
		</CommandHelp>
		<CommandHelp ID="exec.user.4"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Export Solution Multi Level</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>Starts the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1202s000" role="session">Export Solution Multi-level (ttpmc1202s000)</Link> session.</FuncDesc>
			<SimpleSection><Paragraph class="Default">This option is only available if the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1100m000#ttpmc100.dsta" role="formfield">Status</Link> of the solution is <GUIRef href="" role="manual">Released</GUIRef>. Note that the session that starts has no user interface, and that the solution is exported immediately.</Paragraph>
			</SimpleSection>
		</CommandHelp>
		<CommandHelp ID="exec.user.5"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Maintenance History</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>Starts the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/pmc/ttpmc1560m000" role="session">Maintenance History (ttpmc1560m000)</Link> session.</FuncDesc>
		</CommandHelp>
		<CommandHelp ID="ttadv0140s000"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Change Current Package VRC of User</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>Starts the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/adv/ttadv0140s000" role="session">Change Current Package VRC of User (ttadv0140s000)</Link> session.</FuncDesc>
		</CommandHelp>
	</FormCommands>
</Session>
