Working with Change Statuses (Date Validity) 

Use

This process is relevant if you use change master records or change numbers in your organization, for processing objects, so that an object can have multiple change statuses.

 

This process is also of interest to you if your organization uses change master records with parameter effectivity, in other words, if you work with change statuses with parameter effectivity. You should, however, also take the time to read the information specifically about working with change statuses with parameter effectivity.

You can find this in Working with Change Statuses (with Parameter Effectivity).

 

You follow this process if your organization uses change master records with date validity and you want to edit change statuses with date validity in the Engineering Workbench.

 

Change master records are provided by the Engineering Change Management LO-ECH component. Alongside change master records with date validity, this component also offers change master records with parameter effectivity.

For more information, see the SAP Library Engineering Change Management (LO-ECH).

Prerequisites

Your organization uses the Engineering Change Management (LO-ECH) component. In Customizing for this component, the required settings have been made.

Process Flow

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       1.      You select the working area in which you want to work.

Your selection of a suitable working area ensures that you see exactly the information that interests you in the Engineering Workbench. This gives a better overview of your objects and you can work faster.

       2.      To define which objects you want to display or edit in the Engineering Workbench you enter selection criteria and choose a selection period.

       3.      The system copies change statuses, which meet your selection criteria and which are valid on one day within the selection period, from the database to your worklist.

       4.      You process the objects in your worklist. On the overviews in the Engineering Workbench, all change statuses for an object are always displayed (provided they were copied to the worklist). To create, change or delete change statuses with date validity, always enter the change number of a change master record with date validity. Change statuses you create in the Engineering Workbench are also transferred to the worklist.

       5.      You save your worklist.

Result

The system writes the new and changed change statuses to the database.