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:

Procedure

  1. In the main menu, choose Logistics ® Plant maintenance ® Technical objects.

    2. The screen Technical Objects is displayed.

  2. Then choose

    3. – for functional locations:

    Then use the menu bar sequence FunctLocation ® List editing ® Create.

    – for reference functional locations:

    FunctLocation ® Reference location ® List editing ® Create.

    In both cases you go to the List Entry screen.

  3. Enter the structure indicator that you want to use. Then choose Edit ® Copy reference.

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

  4. Enter the label of the location you want to use as a copy reference in this dialog box.
  5. Enter the label of the functional location that is to be at the top of the new structure in the field New FunctLocStruct.
  6. You now have two options:

    7. – 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 Edit ® Select. 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.

  7. Change the functional location texts as required.
  8. Save the new functional locations.