Creating, Changing and Displaying a Notification 

Depending on the application component in which you are working, choose:

To call up the individual functions in the table, choose the corresponding menu path.

Function

Menu Path

What You Should Know:

Create a malfunction report (PM)

<Notification> ® Create (special) ® Malfunction report

If you create a malfunction report after having corrected a malfunction, create the malfunction report and, at the same time, enter all the activities that were performed to rectify the problem.

Create a maintenance request (PM)

<Notification> ® Create (special) ® Maintenance request

  

Create a customer notification (CS)

<Notification> ® Create (special) ® Customer notification

  

Create a service request (CS)

<Notification> ® Create (special) ® Service request

  

Create an activity report (PM/CS)

<Notification> ® Create (special) ® Activity report

  

Create a user-specific notification (PM/CS)

<Notification> ® Create (general)

Here, you enter notifications:

  • For all notification types different from the standard type used in your company
  • For standard notification types

Specify the notification type and notification number on the initial screen.

If internal number assignment for notifications is used in your company, do not enter a number.

Create a notification with reference (PM/CS)

<Notification> ® Create (general)

To reduce the amount of data entered, you can use an existing notification as a copy model. You can use any notification type as a reference, irrespective of which notification type the new notification should have.

When you save the notification, the notification used as a reference is also saved in the notification. This means that you later have the option of selecting notifications that were created with a particular reference.

For more information about which data is copied, see Data from the Copy Model.

Create a service notification for advance shipment (CS)

  

Creating a Service Notification for Advance Shipment

Change a notification (PM/CS)

<Notification> ® Change

  

Display a notification (PM/CS)

<Notification> ® Display