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Function documentation Overwriting a Change Status which has Date Validity  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

You use this function if you want to completely replace a change status with date validity with another change status.

You do this if you

This can be necessary, for example, if this change number is currently locked, or if each change is subject to a documentation requirement, which does not allow change numbers to be used more than once.

Note

This function is only of relevance to you, if your organization uses the Engineering Change Management (LO-ECH) component and uses change master records with date validity, to edit bills of material and routings for example.

Integration

Change status overriding is a function in the engineering change management (LO-ECH) component.

Function

You can process a change status using a change number, which has the same valid-from date as the change number, with which the change status was created. In this case, a new change status overwrites the previous one.

The validity period of the new change status extends from the valid-from date of the previous change status, to immediately before the valid-from date of the change status following (if no change status follows: to December 31 9999).

The previous change status is invalid. Nevertheless, it is still displayed in the Engineering Workbench. You can recognize one of these change statuses, by the fact that no valid-to date is displayed for it.

If you use the change status override function, you can define that an overwritten change status is valid according to specific criteria.

You can find further information in the engineering change management (LO-ECH) documentation in Overriding Validity with Change Numbers.