Creating and Editing Service Lines

Prerequisites

In Customizing for Materials Management under Services → Define Screen Layout , you determine which fields in a service line are required, optional, or blocked.

You are on the service overview screen. From here you can create and edit service lines (see Service LIne ).

Procedure

Creating or Changing Service Lines

Enter the required data in the Services data area.

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If you would like to change the table layout for the service lines, choose Entry variant .

If you use an outline layout, proceed as follows:

Select to display the outline layout.

The outline layout appears on the left-side of the screen.

Place the cursor on the outline level above the service lines that you want to maintain.

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If you have created service lines below an outline level, they are identified by in the outline level on the outline layout display.

You can copy service descriptions from the service master or from documents.

Editing Long Texts

There are two ways to maintain a long text for a service line:

Service long text

Line long text

Select Goto → Service long text

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If you have maintained text in the service master record, you can copy it into the service long text of the service line, and then edit it.

Select Goto → Line Long Text

Setting Line Attributes

Select the desired service line.

Choose .

The Detail screen appears.

Select the Line Category tab page and select the service line.

Changing Data in Several Service Lines (Mass Changes)

Select the required service lines.

Choose Edit ® Set Values

The Set Values dialog box appears.

Select the data to be changed and the new values.

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You can replace subcontractor group 003 with subcontractor group 004 in 30 of a total of 100 service lines in a BOS.

Adding Service Lines

To add new service lines, select one or more service lines that are above where you want to add the new ones.

Choose Edit → Add Line .

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To ensure the numbering is consistent, sort and renumber the lines.

Sorting Service Lines

Choose Edit → Sort by

Select a sort criterion.

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If you have renumbered, added, or deleted service lines in a BOS, you can sort the service lines, and change their sequence. You can use the line number, service number, short text, or the external service number as the sort criterion.

For example, you have service lines numbered 10, 20, and 30, and you create an additional line between 20 and 30, which you number 21.

By sorting, the system restructures the list in ascending order, that is 10, 20, 21, 30.

Renumbering Service Lines

Select Edit ® Renumber

Enter an increment value.

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After sorting, you renumber the service lines if, for example, you want to use standard increments of ten.

Enter the increment, for example, 10. The system replaces the existing values in all the selected lines with the new values. In this example, the system changes the line sequence 10, 20, 21, 30 to 10, 20, 30, 40.

Deleting Service Lines

Select one or more service lines for deletion.

Choose Edit → Delete Line