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Procedure documentation Deleting a Subitem  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 one BOM alternative or variant, irrespective of whether you work with or without group maintenance.

Note

If you want to delete a subitem whose item is assigned to several BOM alternatives/variants and you work with group maintenance, use the Deleting a subitem (group maintenance).

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 only one assignment.

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 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.

The system deletes the subitem from the worklist and from the overview.
  1. Save your data.

Result

The system deletes the subitem in the database.