Maintaining Commitment Items

Prerequisites

If you want to make changes to existing commitment items in an FM area, note of the following prerequisites:

  • You cannot make further changes to the header data (key, fiscal year, FM area) or change the Directly Postable or Not Directly Postable indicators for a commitment item.

  • If budget has already been distributed to the commitment item or actuals/commitments values have been posted, you cannot change the Financial transaction, the superior commitment item in the standard variant, the Commitment item category or the Statistical commt item indicator.

Procedure

  1. Enter the relevant FM area in the Enter FM area dialog box, then choose .

    Note Note

    You only need to enter the FM area when you call up the transaction for the first time. The next time you call it up, the FM area you selected is automatically defaulted. To change the FM area, choose FM Area..

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  2. Enter the header data (alphanumeric code, fiscal year) and choose the relevant maintenance activity , or .

  3. Enter the required data on the tab page or make the required changes.

    Note Note

    You cannot change to a different tab page until you have made all of the required entries on the Basic Data tab page.

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  4. Choose .

    Note Note

    You can create commitment items more effectively by Maintaining the Standard Hierarchy.

    If you want to make changes to more than one commitment item, choose Mass Maintenance of Commitment Items.

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See also:

Copying Commitment Items

Deleting Commitment Items