The active system status determines which business transactions you can perform with network headers, activities, and activity elements. The system status is passed from the network header to the activities and from the activities to the activity elements. Exceptions are the Account assignment locked and Locked statuses.

This is the initial system status for new networks, activities, and activity elements. The system sets this status automatically, when you create a new network.

In the Created status, you can create new activities and activity elements and change the network header.

The status, for example,

• Allows you to directly (physically) delete activities and activity elements
• Prohibits you from posting actual costs

The Released status is necessary before you can post actual costs.

The network header or the activity must have the Created status.

In the Released status, you can create new activities and activity elements and change the network header. If a network has Released status, new activities and activity elements also have Released status.

The status

• Allows you to post actual costs
• Allows you to confirm activities and activity elements
• Allows you to create reservations or purchase requisitions for all components, depending on settings elsewhere.

If the corresponding Customizing setting have been made, the system triggers an availability check for material and capacities.

You cannot cancel the Released status.

You use this status for networks, activities, and activity elements that are completed from a technical (logistics) point of view.

The network header or the activity must have the Released status.

If the status is set in a network header, you cannot change the header data or create new activities. If it is set in an activity, you cannot change activity data.

The status

• Allows actual postings, for example confirmations
• Sets a deletion flag for the material components
• Removes capacity requirements, provided a final confirmation has not been made
• Deletes purchase requisitions and requirements for material components, if any exist.
• Prohibits changes to the characteristic value assignment
• Prevents you setting a user status
• Prevents you from changing dependent data such as material and PRT allocations.

You can cancel the Technically completed status. In this case the system sets the Released status.

The Closed status closes a network or an activity from both a logistics point of view and an accounting point of view.

You can set the Closed status, if the network header, activity, or activity element has the Released or Technically completed status, and

• No balance exists
• All activities that require confirmation have been confirmed.

If the status is set in the network header, you cannot change the header data or create new activities. If it is set in an activity, you cannot change activity data.

The status

• Prevents you from changing dependent data such as material and PRT allocations.
• Prevents you making actual postings, for instance, confirmations
• Removes capacity requirements, as long as a final confirmation has not been made
• Deletes purchase requisitions and requirements for material components, if any exist.

You can cancel the Closed status. The system then set the previous status (Released or technically completed).

The Deletion flag status designates networks and activities that have been flagged for deletion. This means that the objects are deleted logically, but not physically.

You can the Deletion flag, if

• The actual costs of the network are balanced.

• Assigned orders also have the Deletion flag status
• There are only relationships to networks that have a Deletion flag.
• No commitments exist for the network
• No purchase requisitions or purchase orders exist that are account assigned to the network.

If the status is set in the network header, you cannot change the header data or create new activities. If it is set in an activity, you cannot change activity data.

The status

• Removes capacity requirements, as long as a final confirmation has not been made
• Sets an internal deletion indicator for existing material reservations
• Can also be set (after a warning is issued), if an activity requires confirmation but has not been finally confirmed.
• Is the prerequisite for setting a deletion indicator.

You can set the Deletion flag status in addition to every other system status. The status is passed on to activity elements. As long you have not set a deletion indicator, you can cancel the Deletion flag status.

You can prohibit account assignment to a network or lock all data in a network or activity. The following statuses are available:

• Account assignment locked (AALK)

• Locked (LKD)

You can set the Account assignment locked and Locked statuses in addition to every other status except Deletion flag. The Account assignment locked and Locked statuses are not passed on to activity elements.

You can cancel these statuses.