Executing Change Steps 

  1. In the network header choose Extras ® Configuration ® Change management.

    2. An overview of the change comparisons appears together with the administrative data for the network configuration changes. From this list you can display the old and new characteristic value assignment for every change comparison as well as the change steps and their status.

  2. If the characteristic value assignment was changed in a sales document that was assigned to the network manually, the change comparison cannot be created automatically.

    3. In this case first choose Change management ® Create change comparison

  3. To display or edit change steps, select the required change steps and choose Change management ® Overview change steps.

    4. The overview displays all the necessary change steps together with their status and information about existing conflicts.

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    Object to be added / deleted / moved

    Field(s) to be changed

    Execute change steps

    Change steps have been executed

    Change steps can be executed

    Conflict with warning character, change step can be executed

    Conflict with error character, change step cannot be executed (remove cause of error first)

    Change step has been set to "Do not execute".

    Object depends on a superior object (for instance component allocations that are created or deleted with an activity).

    Message log for the conflicts

  4. By choosing View ® Filter, you can specify that only certain object types or comparison results are displayed, for instance only objects to be deleted.
  5. Edit the individual change steps:

    6. If you have removed the causes of the conflicts (for errors) that occurred, you can execute the relevant change steps in the overview. To update the status display, choose Edit ® Check all change steps.

    To execute all the change steps, choose Edit ® Execute all change steps

    To execute a single change step, click on   in the relevant row.

    If you do not want to execute a change step, choose Edit ® Status ® Set to Do not execute. You can reset this status later.

  6. To leave the processing of change steps, choose Goto ® Back.

    7. If there are still change steps to be executed, the status of the change comparison is open. It is complete, if all the change steps have either been executed or have been set to "Do not execute".

  7. If the status is complete, you can close the change comparison. To do so, choose Change management ® Close change comparison.

The status Manual adjustment necessary is removed from the network header.