Preprinting and Reprinting Maintenance Orders
This function enables you to print shop papers before the maintenance order is released and after it is completed. If you allow shop papers to be preprinted and reprinted by making the appropriate Customizing settings, you can print shop papers for orders that have the status created
or technically completed
, for example. The system status in the order tells you if the shop papers belonging to the maintenance order and operations have been preprinted, printed, or reprinted. This function is available in the SAP GUI transactions. As of SAP enhancement package 6 (SP15) for SAP ERP 6.0, you can also use this function on the SAP Web user interface for Plant Maintenance.
Technical Details
Technical Name of the Product Feature |
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Product feature is | new |
Country Dependency | Valid for all countries |
Software Component Version |
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Application Component | PM (Plant Maintenance) |
Availability | SAP enhancement package 4 (SP17) for SAP ERP 6.0 SAP enhancement package 5 (SP14) for SAP ERP 6.0 SAP enhancement package 6 (SP15) for SAP ERP 6.0 SAP enhancement package 6 for SAP ERP 6.0, version for SAP HANA, SPS 09 SAP enhancement package 7 (SP07) for SAP ERP 6.0 |
Required Business Function(s) |
Additional Details
Preprinting means that you can print the shop papers even if the maintenance order has not been released yet and still has the system status created
. The numbers for the preprints are in the number range 100 to 199.
Reprinting means you can print shop papers even if the maintenance order has one of the following system statuses:
Technically completed
Closed
Not completed
Marked for deletion
Deletion indicator set
The numbers for the reprints are in the number range 200 to 255.
Effects on Existing Data
In Customizing for Plant Maintenance and Customer Service
under 
Maintenance and Service Processing
Maintenance and Service Orders
Print Control
in the Customizing activities Define Shop Papers, Forms and Output Programs
and Define Printer
, there are new checkboxes available called Print Before Release Allowed
and Print After Completion Allowed
. In Customizing, you can allow preprinting and reprinting for specific shop papers and order types as well as restrict the use of this function to specific users. You can only preprint or reprint shop papers for orders if you have selected the corresponding checkbox.
During order processing, you can find the printing status in the SAP GUI transactions by choosing Goto
Logs
Print
. The new table column Printing Status
tells you if the shop papers have been preprinted, printed, or reprinted. In addition, there are new system statuses called PRTB Preprinted (Before Release)
and PRTT Reprinted (After Completion)
. These system statuses are especially important for the SAP Web UI for Plant Maintenance, as they are the only indication of whether an order has been preprinted or reprinted.