Deletion of Notifications 

Use

You may want to delete a notification (for example, because the malfunction reported is covered by another malfunction report, or an activity report was inadvertently entered twice).

However, you cannot delete a notification directly online. Usually, you set a deletion flag in the notification, which informs the system that this notification can be deleted.

At certain intervals, an archiving program will be started in your company. This program checks the notifications with deletion flags, converts the deletion flags into deletion indicators, and then deletes the notifications from the database and copies them to an archive.

Prerequisites

Before you delete a notification, you should ensure it is no longer required.

Features

You can no longer change a notification once it has a deletion flag. It obtains the statuses Deletion flag and Completed. You can now only display it. For more information about notification statuses, see Status Management.

When you set the deletion flag in the notification header, the individual tasks for the notification are also flagged for deletion.

You can reset the deletion flag, provided that it has not been converted to a deletion indicator.

Activities

To set the deletion flag, call up the notification in change mode, and choose Notification ® Functions ® Deletion flag ® Set.

To reset the deletion flag, choose Notification ® Functions ® Deletion flag ® Reset.

See also:

Archiving of Maintenance Notifications (PM-WOC-MN)

Archiving of Service Notifications (CS-CM-SN)