Maintain profile

In this step, you define the profiles for default values and settings when you create a change master record.

The information in a profile is standard information that you need to enter frequently in a similar combination in change master records. The profile makes it easier to enter and manage change data.

Recommendation

Before you create a change master record, check whether a suitable Object type profile exists.

See Display object type profile.

Activities

To define a profile:

1. On the profile overview, choose New entries.

2. On the detail screen, enter a name and description for your profile.

3. Enter your default values for the following fields in change master records:

• Change number status

• Authorization group

• Reason for change

• Status profile

4. Enter an object type profile if required.

You use the object type profile to define which objects can be processed with the change master record (for example, BOMs, task lists, or documents). For this reason, you cannot use profiles to create a leading change master record.

• Enter a suitable object type profile, if one exists.

• If you want to create a new object type profile, see: Create object type profile.

5. Save your settings for the profile.

Create object type profile

• On the profile overview for change master records (initial screen), choose Object type overview in theNavigation dataset.

You see an overview where you can enter the object types for change objects that you want to process with a profile. The possible entries function shows you the change object types. For example, if you want to process BOMs and routings, enter object types 2 (material BOM) and 12 (routing).
The system find the description of the object type.

• Set your default indicators for the object types.

• You can use the Can be overridden indicator to allow you to change the default settings for object types when you create a change master record.