Calling up Object Information 

Use

You can display information that affects the reference object in a dialog box, which can be shown automatically. The following data, which refers to the object in the notification, is available in the Object Information dialog box:

From the dialog box, you can call up more detailed data for all these entries, for example, an individual notification. You can also branch to the information system to evaluate statistics.

Prerequisites

In Customizing for Plant Maintenance and Customer Service, you have defined an object information key by choosing Maintenance Order Management ® Notifications ® Object Information, and assigned it to the notification type.

This information can also be displayed automatically if certain conditions are met. This means, for example, that you can set in Customizing whether object information should always be displayed if a particular number of notifications are still outstanding for this object within a particular period of time, or if the object has certain characteristics.

Procedure

  1. Depending on the application component in which you are working, choose:
  1. Call up the notification in display or change mode.
  2. If a reference object has been entered in the notification, choose Object information.

    3. A dialog box appears that displays information about the reference object.

  3. In the Reference group box, you can choose whether you want to see information about the object specified in the notification, about its superior object, or the entire object structure.

The dialog box also contains the following information: