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Procedure documentationWorking with Maintenance Activities

 

Maintenance activities allow you to enter information into the system. You can do the following:

  • Create a new record

  • Change an existing record

  • Delete an existing record

  • Clear the screen

Prerequisites

You have logged on to the SAP ME system.

Procedure

Creating a New Record

  1. Open the maintenance activity you want to work with. For example, to create a material record, open Material Maintenance by clicking the link with the name of the activity in the Activity Manager tree in the left pane.

  2. Enter a value for each of the primary fields.

  3. Select the Main tab and other tab pages and enter the required data.

  4. Save your entries.

Changing an Existing Record

  1. Open the maintenance activity you want to work with. For example, to change a material, open Material Maintenance.

  2. In the primary fields, enter the values that identify the record you want to change.

    Note Note

    If the field has a browse icon, you can browse for its value.

    If the Version field appears as a key field, you can leave this field blank and the system retrieves the current version of the record.

    End of the note.

  3. Choose Retrieve icon to retrieve the data.

  4. Select each tab page and enter the data you want to change.

    Note that if you change the value of a primary field, the system creates a new record when you save it.

  5. Save your entries.

Deleting an Existing Record

  1. Open the maintenance activity you want to work with. For example, to change a material, open Material Maintenance.

  2. In the primary fields, enter the values that identify the record you want to delete.

  3. Retrieve the data.

  4. Make sure this is the record you want to delete, and choose Delete icon.

  5. To confirm the deletion, choose OK or to keep the record, choose Cancel.

Working with Tables on a Tab

Tabs on some maintenance activities contain a table with a row of column names. For example, Material Maintenance has a table on its Alternates tab. In this table, you can enter information about materials that operators can substitute for the material described by the current record.

On a tab with a table, you can create a new raw by doing the following:

  1. Choose Insert New, Insert Before, or Insert After.

  2. Enter the information for the row in each field under a column.

Note that if the table has a Sequence column, leave gaps between sequence numbers to simplify renumbering in case you need to add rows later.