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 List Editing Using a Copy Reference

Use

If you want to represent a location structure that already exists in the system in a similar form, you can use this structure as a copy reference. In this way you are able to:

  • Extend existing location structures at a later date, using copy references

  • Create new location structures using a number of individual copy references

Procedure

  1. In the main menu, choose Start of the navigation path Logistics Next navigation step Plant maintenance Next navigation step Technical objects End of the navigation path .

  2. The screen Technical Objects is displayed.

  3. Then choose

  4. – for functional locations:

    Then use the menu bar sequence Start of the navigation path FunctLocation Next navigation step List editing Next navigation step Create End of the navigation path .

    – for reference functional locations:

    Start of the navigation path FunctLocation Next navigation step Reference location Next navigation step List editing Next navigation step Create Next navigation step . End of the navigation path

    In both cases you go to the List Entry screen .

  5. Enter the structure indicator that you want to use. Then choose Start of the navigation path Edit Next navigation step Copy reference End of the navigation path .

  6. The dialog box Copy Functional Location Structure is displayed.

  7. Enter the label of the location you want to use as a copy reference in this dialog box.

  8. Enter the label of the functional location that is to be at the top of the new structure in the field New FunctLocStruct .

  9. You now have two options:

  10. – You copy all locations of this structure

    To do this, choose Continue .

    The system enters all the location labels and texts in the entry list. The labels have already been changed according to the new location structure specified.

    – You display the structure of the copy reference and select the locations that you want to copy.

    To do this, choose either Structure list or Structure graphic .

    In both cases, the location hierarchy, that you can break down further as required, is displayed.

    Flag the locations that you would like to copy and choose Start of the navigation path Edit Next navigation step Select. End of the navigation path You return to the List Editing screen.

    The system enters all the labels and texts of the selected locations in the entry list. The labels have already been changed in accordance with the new location structure, and possibly adapted to suit the new structure indicator.

  11. Change the functional location texts as required.

  12. Save the new functional locations.