Prerequisites

You have already selected cost centers, business processes, or profit centers (for example, in the maintenance screen for the enterprise organization).

In the search area you can look for inactive cost centers, business processes, or profit centers.

Procedure

Select the inactive object that you want to activate,

In the list in the selection area, or

In the structure tree in the overview area.

You can select more than one object in the selection area and/or the overview area.

Choose Activate .

A dialog box appears that contains a list of all inactive objects . The objects that you selected in the selection list or structure tree are already marked in this list.

If you have not yet selected any objects, you can mark in this dialog box all the inactive objects that you want to activate.

In the dialog box choose Activate .

The system saves the objects as active .

You can activate inactive master data in Customizing also. In Customizing for the relevant application component, choose Master Data → <Object> → Activate inactive <object>.

Result

The system changes the activation status in the selection area and in the overview area from inactive (red) to active (green).

In the detail area you see whether a master data was created, changed or deleted by looking at the status text.

If there is an active and an inactive master record version, you can switch between versions in the detail area. You can also trigger the checks for the inactive master record version.

You trigger activation and checking only after you have made all your changes. You can also select more than one object in the selection area and/or the overview area for this .