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Prerequisites

You are authorized to work in one or more working areas in the Engineering Workbench. These working areas have been created in Customizing for the Engineering Workbench by your system administrator.

Procedure

  1. Call up the Engineering Workbench.

Which screen then appears depends on whether you defined a default working area during a previous session in the Engineering Workbench.

If you

  1. If you want to work in your default working area, continue with step 6. Otherwise click This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

    2. The EWB: Select working area dialog box appears.

  2. In the Current working area field, enter the working area in which you want to work.
  1. If you want to display the focus and working environment of your working area, proceed as follows:
    1. Click This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

      2. The EWB: Working area details dialog box appears.

    2. Click This graphic is explained in the accompanying text to leave the dialog box.
  1. Click This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

    2. The EWB: Selection criteria for <focus of your working area> screen appears.

  2. Enter the selection period in the Selection range screen section.

    3. Next to the selection period you can also enter a parameter variant in this screen section. However, this is only of relevance to you if your organization uses parameter effectivity. You can find further information on this topic in Working with change statuses (parameter effectivity)

  3. Enter selection criteria on the tab pages.
  1. If you want to enter more selection criteria, click This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

    2. You can find further information on this topic in Using More Selection Criteria.

  2. Click This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

Note

From the selection screen you can go immediately to any overview in the Engineering Workbench. For example, to go straight to the Operations overview, choose Task lists ® Operations. To go to the Item dependencies overview, choose Bills of material ® Object dependencies ® Items.

Result

The system copies the focus objects you selected and the environment objects to your worklist.

The <focus of your working area> EWB: Overview screen appears.

You can now display and process your worklist objects on the overview and detail screens in the Engineering Workbench.