The system provides status management for processing investment measures (WBS elements and orders). Using status management, you can define your own status settings, in addition to those that are predefined in the system (such as, created, released, and so on).

Usually you need status management in order to control the organizational aspects of planning and budgeting investment programs. Therefore, the program positions of the investment program can use the functions of general R/3 status management. By defining the appropriate user statuses, you make sure that certain actions (such as budgeting) can only be carried out when the program position has a given status. You can also link the changing of statuses to an authorization. You thereby guarantee that status changes can be made only by specific decision-makers in your organization.

You can also define status selection profiles in Customizing for Investment Management. A status selection profile describes a given system and/or user state. You can enter a status selection profile in the following functions:

• Fiscal year change

• Rollup of plan values from investment measures

• In standard reports in the Information System

The system then selects only those program positions or investment measures that have the status described in the status selection profile. For example, you can choose to report only on investment measures that have already been released.

For more information on user statuses, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Investment Management. Choose

• Investment Programs ® Master Data ® User Status
• Investment Programs ® Information System ® Information System Without Summarization (Current Data)