Releasing the Overall Project 

Usage

You release the overall project when the customer places the order. Once you have released the project, you can start working on it. You can only start posting actual costs and actual revenues to the individual WBS elements once the project has been released.

Procedure

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    From the Project node, choose Project Builder.

    Transaction Code

    CJ20N

    The Project Builder appears. The system displays your project in the tree structure as a preview.

  2. Double-click on project T-10###.
  3. Select the project definition Turbine ###.

    4. Note the system status (CRTD). This is displayed in the Identification and View Selection screen area, on the Basic data tab page. For more information on the system status, choose . The Business processes tab page shows the activities that are allowed or not allowed in the current system status for the object.

    For example, the Incoming invoice activity is not allowed for WBS elements, nor is Confirm activity allowed for activities.

  4. Choose Edit ® Status ® Release.

    5. The value in the System status field changes from CRTD to REL. Releasing the project definition releases all of its lower-level objects.

  5. Choose .
  6. Remain on this screen.