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Process documentation Filling your Worklist with Focus Objects (Date Validity)  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Purpose

After you have defined the selection criteria and selection range for your worklist and clicked This graphic is explained in the accompanying text, the system fills your worklist in two steps. This process describes the first of the two stages.

Note

The system only uses this process, if your organization uses the Engineering Change Management (LO-ECH) component and uses change master records with date effectivity, to process bills of material and routings for example.

Process Flow

  1. The system determines which objects fulfill your selection criteria, in other words, which objects are focus objects

The system does this as described in Focus Object Selection, although the following applies if an object has more than one change status: The object fulfills the selection criteria if at least one of its change statuses fulfills the selection criteria.

  1. The system copies every change status for a focus object to the worklist, which overlaps with the selection period.

Note

It is not obligatory for a copied change status to fulfill the selection criteria (see the example following).

Result

The system fills your worklist with change statuses for the focus objects.

To fill your worklist with change statuses for the environment objects, the system then executes the Filling your Worklist with Environment Objects (Date Effectivity) process.

Example

Header A has two change statuses (see table):

Header A Change Statuses

Change status

Status

Validity period

CH1

Created

January

CH2

Released (general)

February

 

Your working area has header as its focus. You enter the selection criterion "all released headers". In the selection range you enter the month of January as the selection period.

Header A is a focus object, as its change status CH2 fulfills the selection criterion in February. However, CH2 is not copied to the worklist, as it is invalid in January. On the other hand, CH1 does not meet the selection criteria, but is valid in January. CH1 is therefore copied to the worklist.

See also:

Focus Object Selection