Accompanying Documents (SAP Library - Configuration Management (LO-CM))

Accompanying Documents

Use

With accompanying documents, you can comprehensively document the work processes in configuration management.

Integration

Accompanying documents connected to document management (CA-DMS) via an object link and are managed with their functions.

Prerequisites

You can then only assign an accompanying document to a configuration folder or baseline if, in Customizing for the document type, an object link for configuration folders or baselines has been planned (Customizing for document management, work step Control Data à Define Document Type).

Features

You can assign accompanying documents to configuration folders and to baselines.

On the Accompanying Docs tab page there is a list in which you can enter accompanying documents. The following functions are available to you:

Icon	Function
	Assign document
	Delete document assignment
	Find document
	Arrange list in ascending order
	Arrange list in descending order
	Display document info record
	Display original
	Print original
	Enter notes for object link

Differences to Documents in the Structure

This table presents the most important differences between accompanying documents and documents in the structure of a configuration folder or baseline.

Documents in the Structure	Accompanying Documents
describe a product or project (object level)	describe work processes in the configuration management itself (meta level)
You enter in the structure tab page or copy from the product structure browser using Drag & Drop	You enter in the accompanying docs tab page
Can no longer expand if a baseline is fixed	Can still create after the baseline has been fixed