For more information, see Prerequisites for Creating Relationships.

1. Choose Goto ® Network graphic.

You reach the SAP Graphical Editor screen. This displays all the operations that have been entered previously for the maintenance task list.

2. Press the Connect pushbutton.
3. Press and hold the left mouse button on the operation from which you want to create a relationship. The position of the pointer specifies the type of relationship (see the figure "Maintaining Relationships in the Graphic" below).

Each element in a maintenance plan (for example, operation, sub-operation, material component) is valid for a certain period of time.

4. Drag the line to the operation, for which you want to create the relationship. The position of the pointer specifies the type of relationship (see the figure "Maintaining Relationships in the Graphic" below).
5. Release the mouse button.

The system will connect the two operations with a line and will record the type of relationship above the line. The line extends from the right edge of the predecessor to the left edge of the successor, and therefore only shows that a relationship exists; the type of relationship is always written above the line.



Defining the relationship type using the mouse cursor (lines here do not correspond to those you would see in the graphic on the screen)

6. To enter detailed data for a relationship (for example, time interval), select the relationship and choose Details ® Relationship.

Make all the required entries. The help functions support you in this.

Use Back to return to the graphical display.



From the graphic (menu option Details), you can also call up the screens for externally and internally processed operations, enter or change data and then return to the graphic for relationships.

You can also create new operations in the graphic. To do this, see Creating an Operation in the Graphic.

7. To create additional relationships, repeat steps 1 to 6.
8. Return to the operation overview of the maintenance task list using Goto ® Back.
9. Save the maintenance task list.