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Procedure documentation Copying an Item  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

You use this procedure if you want to copy an item.

Note

You this procedure if you do not work with group maintenance. If you work with group maintenance use the Copying an item (group maintenance) procedure instead.

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

The BOM header to which you want to add the item must already exist. You work without group maintenance.

Procedure

  1. Call up the screen EWB: Items overview.
  1. Select the item you want to copy.
  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 EWB: Copy – Target data screen appears.
  1. In the context of the EWB: Copy – Target data dialog box, enter the data for the BOM header to which you want to add the item.

Note

If subitems also exist for the item that you want to copy then these are also copied. (At this stage the copy range is irrelevant.)
  1. Click This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Copy.

The system then creates the copied item in your worklist and locks it for other users. You can see this from the This graphic is explained in the accompanying text lock symbol.
  1. Save your data.

Result

The system creates a copy of the item in the database.