Activating Availability Control In The Background 

Prerequisites

In the budget profile, you selected Activation type two for availability control (background activation).

During background activation of availability control, the system checks whether the limit of the usage level stored in the budget profile has been reached or not. If it has been exceeded, then availability control is activated.

You can start the background run for availability control automatically and on a regular basis.

In The Project System (Same Procedure For Internal Orders)

In the Project System, select the projects for which you want to start the background run.

  1. Choose Logistics or Accounting ® Project system ® Controlling ® Budgeting ® Tools ® Activate availability control
  2. For internal orders, choose Accounting ® Controlling ® Internal orders ® Budgeting ® Availability control ® Activate.
  3. If required, enter the controlling area and the database profile. The Background Activation of Availability Control For Projects appears.
  4. Enter the required data.

During background activation of availability control, the system creates a log for the objects for which you activated availability control. If you set the indicator for a complete log, all the other projects in the variant (object selection) are displayed, for which you did not activate availability control.
  1. To save the project selection as a variant, choose Goto ® Variants ® Save as variant....
    The ABAP: Save as variant screen appears.
  1. Enter a variant name and text (meaning) and set the indicator For Background processing only.
  2. Save the variant using .
    The initial screen appears again, and the system informs you that the variant was saved.

Job Definition

You can start the background run for availability control on a regular basis by using a job definition.