Changing a Document and Completing an ECO

Prerequisites

To complete a document change, the following must apply:

  • The current status of the change master record (object management record for the document) must support the Complete change system status as the next status.

  • The current status of the document must support a follow-up status that has the Complete for engineering change management indicator set for it.

Procedure

  1. Change the document ( Start of the navigation path Document Next navigation step Change). End of the navigation path

  2. – For example, change an original application file and check it into a vault.

    – Set the document status that has the Complete for engineering change management indicator set for it.

    The system checks the object management record of the document in the allocated change master record. If all the requirements have been fulfilled, the system automatically changes the change master record (the object management record for the document receives the Complete change system status).

  3. Edit the change master record.

  4. After changing an object, you must set the system status of the object to Complete change.

    You only need to take this step for those objects that have already been assigned the system status Change possible .

    You can only complete the engineering change order once the system status Complete change has been set for all objects.

    Exception for documents:

    The processing status Complete is not set in the change master record for documents.

  5. Once all objects affected by the change have the Complete change status, an additional check can be performed. The business transaction Release change is defined for this purpose.

Change the system status of the change objects and the change master to Release change and Release order respectively.