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Procedure documentation Deleting a Subitem (Group Maintenance)  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

You use this procedure if you want to delete a subitem whose superior item is assigned to several BOM alternatives or variants and you work with group maintenance.

Note

If you work without group maintenance use the Deleting a subitem 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 item that is superior to the subitem to be deleted has several assignments. You work with group maintenance.

Procedure

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

You goto the EWB: Subitems overview screen.
  1. Mark the subitem that you want to delete and 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 Delete objects dialog box appears.
  1. Confirm that you want to delete the selected object.

In the overview of the subitems, the subitem to be deleted remains unchanged. However, in the worklist the system deletes the subitem for the assignment of the superior item to BOM alternatives/variants with the lowest number.

Note

This means that when you want to delete the subitem in additional item assignments to other BOM alternatives/variants (with higher numbers) then you have to repeat steps 3 and 4.

Only when you have deleted the subitem for all the item assignments to BOM alternatives/variants, does the system remove the subitem from the overview.
  1. Save and go back.

In the EWB: Items overview group maintenance screen two line entries for the superior item appear. The top line refers to the item assignment to the BOM alternative(s)/variant(s) in which the subitem has not been deleted. The bottom line refers to the item assignment to the BOM alternative/variant for which the sub item has been deleted.

Result

The system deletes the subitem in the database.