Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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- Orders
- Order generation process
- Batch ordering
- Processing control fields
- Routing orders to external purchase systems
- Prepare for background ordering requirement
- Closing and receiving
- Closing and receiving order line items
- Receipt verification
- Confirmation
- Receiving log
- Link records
- Format control and link records
Order generation process
Orders generate in the background. The Request Management order generation process controls several features:
- Order frequency
- Treatment of on-hand inventory
- Combining line items into a common order line item
Locks
Request Management uses locks which restrict access to records to ensure that multiple users are not applying updates to the same record at the same time. Locking is implemented at the control item level when a quote or order is viewed. When the quote or order is locked, all associated items are locked as well, including line items. For this reason, processing, such as the movement between and through phases, cannot occur while the user is modifying the control item records.
The system’s background order processing attempts to lock the parent quotes of line items being processed or ordered. Therefore, certain implementation issues need to be considered. These include the following:
- Scheduling of background order processing
- Establishing the use of the Inactivity Timer (for parameters to disable inactive users)
See the Server Security Help for details about the Inactivity Timer.
Background processing
The background processor (ocm) manages Request Management ordering and event processing. This processor’s interval is set by default to check every 60 seconds for ocm schedule records to process.
There is one ocm class schedule record for the ordering process.
- OCM Create Order
- Also called Background Order Demand
- (for batch -- demand order processing) Executes the rmo.create.order application.
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