Closure of Inspection Characteristics (SAP Library

Closure of Inspection Characteristics

Use

The processing of an inspection characteristic is completed when you close the characteristic. The system checks whether the conditions specified in the inspection plan for processing the characteristic have been fulfilled. You must close all required characteristics and all optional characteristics for which results were processed, before the usage decision can be made for the inspection lot.

The function for closing inspection characteristics is contained on the characteristic overview screen and characteristic single screen, when you record inspection results.

As in the valuation of characteristics, you can close one or more selected characteristics on the characteristic overview screen. In addition, you can force the closure of a characteristic.

Note

If you want to close all processed characteristics on the characteristic overview screen, first use the function to select all the characteristics and then close them. Unprocessed optional characteristics, skipped characteristics, and characteristics that are already closed are not taken into consideration in this case.

Characteristic Log

If a characteristic cannot be closed successfully, the system specifies the reason in the characteristic log.

Prerequisites

Before a characteristic is closed, the system checks whether:

The required sample scope was adhered to.
The conditional characteristics were processed (status 2) independently of the valuation for the controlling characteristic.
An inspection description was entered for characteristics that require documentation.

If there is no inspection description, the system displays a dialog box in which you can enter a short text. You can also enter a long text for the inspection description by calling up the long text function from the dialog box.

When you close a non-valuated characteristic, the system automatically valuates the characteristic. If the characteristic is successfully closed, the status of the characteristic is set to "closed" (status 5). In this way, you can immediately close inspection characteristics.

For more information about the navigation options when closing characteristics, see Customizing for Quality Management by choosing Quality Inspection ® Results Recording ® Define Recording Configurations

See also:

Display of Conditional Characteristics