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 Mass Changes for Equipment and Functional Locations

Use

This function enables you to make mass changes to the fields of multiple pieces of equipment and functional locations at the same time. This saves time and helps avoid work duplication if you have to make the same change to many pieces of equipment and functional locations.

Prerequisites

You are authorized to perform mass changes. Authorization for mass changes is controlled with authorization object I_MASS.

For more information, see SAP Authorization Concept .

Features

You can make mass changes to the following fields of pieces of equipment and functional locations. These fields are organized into the following groups:

Fields Available for Mass Changes

Group

Fields

General

Description , Object Type , Authorization Type , User Status

Organization

Business Area , WBS Element , Standing Order , Settlement Order , Planning Group , Main Work Center , Catalog Profile

Location

Location , Room , Plant Section , Work Center , ABC Indicator , Sort Field

Note Note

The m ass changes function is not available for all fields for reasons of dependency.

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Inheritance

When you carry out a mass change, be aware of the following points regarding d ata origin:

  • Fields for which no data origin has been specified (for example, Description ) are changed for all the selected objects.

  • Fields for which a data origin has been specified are only changed if the data origin is set to Maintained Individually . If the data origin is Functional Location or Superordinate Equipment (for equipment), or Reference Location or Functional Location (for functional locations), then the mass change is not carried out.

For more information on data origin, see Displaying and Changing Data Origin .

When you carry out a mass change, all the technical objects that are under the selected technical object in the hierarchy are also changed. This may cause lock table overflow if a large number of objects have to be processed. Resulting inheritance breaks can be processed in transaction IL21.

If there is an inheritance break in an object before you carry out a mass change, then this inheritance break is repaired during the mass change. It is also repaired for the other objects under the same superior object.

Note Note

If inheritance breaks are repaired, the message log contains a general message to this effect. It does not contain messages for each individually repaired object. This is to avoid cluttering the message log with information that is not related to the mass changes function.

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Activities

You specify which fields of which objects you want to change and how. When you execute the mass changes function, the system makes the specified changes in line with the data origin settings of the field in question. Detailed information on the extent to which the changes have been implemented appears in the subsequent message log.

For more information on how to carry out a mass change, see Carrying Out a Mass Change .