Specifying Key Dates and Change Numbers 

Use

With this procedure you specify the key date and the change number when you enter the specification workbench.

Prerequisites

If you want to specify a change number, you must have created it in engineering change management (see Engineering Change Management for Specifications).

Procedure

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       1.      In the Basic Data and Tools menu choose Specification Workbench.

       2.      Double-click  with the quick info text Key Date for Editing below the toolbar in the specification workbench.

The Global Parameters dialog box appears.

       3.      Enter the required data and confirm your entries. If you enter a change number, the system takes the valid-from date for the change number as the key date. A key date entered manually will then be overwritten.

A dialog box appears in which the specified data is displayed.

       4.      Confirm your entries.

Result

The key date and the change number apply for all specifications that you display, create, or change in the specification workbench, independent of the specification category of the specification. This means the system displays all specifications for the key date entered and makes all changes to these objects in the change state whose validity interval includes the key date. If you enter a change number, the system makes the changes with the change number entered. Your settings are valid until you exit the specification workbench again. If you have set the Retain Setting indicator, your settings are also valid for all future accesses to the specification workbench until you change the settings again.

When you call a screen to search for specifications of a specification category, the system checks whether the set change number is permitted for the specifications of this category. In Customizing for Basic Data and Toolsunder Specify Environment Parameters you can specify a function module in the environment parameter CHANGE_NUMBER_CHECK_FUNC. When you search for specifications, this function module checks or changes the change number that was set in the specification workbench.