Status Management

Use

You can use Status Management for records and documents. In Customizing, define the status values and the permitted sequence of these values. Users can then set these status values as attributes for records or documents.

The following Customizing steps need to be performed for Status Management:

• Status value definition

  To perform this step, choose IMG activity Customizing for Status Management -> Define Status. For more information, see the online documentation for the IMG activity.

• Status profile definition

  To perform this step, choose IMG activity Customizing for Status Management -> Define Status Profile. For more information, see the online documentation for the IMG activity.

• Status network definition

  To perform this step, choose IMG activity Customizing for Status Management -> Define Status Network. For more information, see the online documentation for the IMG activity.

• Assignment of a status profile to an element type

  For element types whose elements you want to use Status Management for, assign an existing status profile to connection parameter STATE_PROFILE_ID. (The connection parameter is only offered for records and documents).

  Subsequently, users will be offered the attribute Status in the attribute maintenance dialog box whenever they edit the elements in question. Input help contains the status values that you have created.