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 User Status

Definition

User statuses are defined within a status profile in Customizing for Plant Maintenance . You can use them to further limit the business transactions allowed by the various system statuses.

Note Note

A status profile that has been assigned once can no longer be changed.

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You can assign and delete any user statuses that have been defined in your system provided you have the appropriate authorization.

There are generally two types of user status within a status profile:

  • User status with status number

  • User status without status number

The status number serves to define the possible follow-on statuses for a particular user status. Only one user status with status number can be active at any one time. For more information and an example of the status number, see Customizing for Plant Maintenance .

If you want to activate one or more user statuses simultaneously in addition to the user status that is currently active, you must define these as user statuses without status number. Any number of user statuses without status numbers can be active at any one time.

Use

Example Example

The employee responsible sets the user status " Equipment in production " for a piece of equipment that has been created and installed. This restricts the permitted business transactions, as it does not allow the transaction " Dismantle Equipment " to be performed.

As a consequence, this piece of equipment cannot be dismantled and installed at another functional location using the replacement transaction as long as it has this user status. The employee responsible must first deactivate the status before the piece of equipment can be dismantled from the current functional location.

You can set the user status " Blocked for billing " for an order. The business transaction "Create billing document" is then not allowed.

You can configure the operations "Determine costs" and "Advance shipment" in Customizing for the status profile in such a way that they are allowed, allowed but a warning is displayed, or not allowed.

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