External Scheduling in the Completion Confirmation 

Use

You use this function in the completion confirmation in your company to plan field services using an external system.

Prerequisites

For more information on the prerequisites, see External Scheduling.

You have assigned the function module PM_ORDER_EXTERN_BOOK_DEFAULT to the fixed value B in Customizing under Plant Maintenance and Customer Service ® Maintenance and Service Processing ® Maintenance and Service Orders ® Scheduling ® External Scheduling ® Configure Communication.

Features

If you finally confirm an operation, the SAP System calls up the function module PM_ORDER_EXTERN_BOOK_DEFAULT and sets the update indicator of the operation to C for 'Finally confirmed'.

In the external scheduling system, the operation must be set to Completed or else deleted after this function has been called.