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Function documentation Changing a Change Status with Parameter Effectivity  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

You use this function if you change an object in the Engineering Workbench and, to do this, use a change number, which has parameter effectivity.

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 parameter effectivity, to process bills of material or routings for example.

Features

You can use a change number with parameter effectivity to change an object. What then takes place, depends on whether or not you have already processed the object using this change number.

If you

then the system generates a new change status. The change status adopts the effectivity of the change master record related to the change number.

the related change status already exists. You then change this change status.