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Procedure documentation Creating a Sub-Item  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

You use this procedure if you want to create a sub-item, irrespective of whether you work with or without group maintenance.

Note

Note, however, that the subitem that you create for a specific item with group maintenance is created in all BOM alternatives or variants to which this item is assigned.

Group maintenance is activated in Customizing the Engineering Workbench under Editing working areas. Other information for checking whether you work with or without group maintenance can be found under Group maintenance.

Prerequisites

You have already created the item for which you want to create a subitem.

Procedure

  1. Call up the EWB: Items overview screen (and for group maintenance the screen EWB: Items overview group maintenance).
  1. In the SIs column select the item for which you want to create a subitem by double clicking on the symbol This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

Note

If a subitem already exists for the item the symbol you choose is: This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

You goto the EWB: Subitems overview screen.

  1. Click This graphic is explained in the accompanying text. If the EWB: Process using dialog box appears, you have to enter either a key date or a change number.

The system provides input lines beneath the objects that are displayed in the overview. The system proposes default values in certain columns.

  1. Enter the data for the subitem you want to create in one of the empty fields and click This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

The system creates the subitem in the worklist and locks the superior item for other users. You can see this by the This graphic is explained in the accompanying text lock indicator when you go back to the EWB: Items overview screen.

Note

In the line for the locked item, the symbol This graphic is explained in the accompanying text changes its color to This graphic is explained in the accompanying text, to show that at least one subitem exists for the relevant item.

  1. Save your data.

Result

The system creates a subitem in the database.