Status Management

Use

Quality notifications are supported by the SAP System's status management function. Whenever you create and process a quality notification, you execute certain business transactions for the notification. These business transactions are documented in the SAP System by a status. The current status of a notification (or combination of active statuses) tells you which processing stages the notification has reached and which processing activities have yet to be completed.

Of the available statuses in the system, only a few need to be set at any given time. Typically, a notification must have a certain status before you can process the notification further. If a status is missing, the system displays a message to inform you of this.

A quality notification can have two types of statuses:

  • System statuses

    System statuses are automatically set by the system when you execute a function for a quality notification. For example, if you print a notification, the systems sets the status " printed" (NOPT ) for the notification. The system status informs you that a certain business transaction was performed for the notification.

    System statuses for quality notifications are predefined in the SAP System and cannot be changed.

  • User statuses

    User statuses are additional statuses that allow you to restrict the control of the business processes managed by the system statuses.

    Your system administrator defines user statuses in status profiles (see Customizing for Notification Processing ). You can assign and delete user statuses that have been defined in your system, provided you have the necessary authorization.