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Procedure documentation Changing a Subitem  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

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

Note

Note, however, that the changes that you make to a subitem with group maintenance are effective in all BOM alternatives or variants to which the superior 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.

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 whose subitem you want to change, by double clicking on the symbol 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.

All fields that can be edited on the subitem are made ready for input. The system then locks the superior item to other users.
  1. Make the desired changes and click This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

The system changes the subitem in your worklist.
  1. Save your data.

Result

The system changes the subitem in the database.