Displaying and Maintaining Term Status (SAP Library - Terminology and Glossary in SAPterm (BC-DOC-TER))

Displaying and Maintaining Term Status

Prerequisites

To maintain the status of a term, you need superuser authorization.

Procedure

To maintain the status of a term, proceed as follows:

Call up transaction STERM.

Enter the term and choose Find. Alternatively, use Selection criteria to call up a number of terms based on your requirements (for example, all terms from a specific component with status 1 and 2).

The results list appears containing all terms found.

Choose Edit ® Display status.

The status of the terms is displayed as follows in the results list.

– This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Status 1 (new)

– This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Status 2 (to be checked)

– This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Status 3 (released)

Choose Edit ® Maintain status to activate the maintenance mode.

To change the status of a term, click on the traffic light icon.

Note

To release all the terms in this list in one step, choose Edit ® Release all entries.

To reset the status of all terms in one step choose Edit ® Revoke release for all entries.

Result

The status changes as follows:

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text ®

Note

If a glossary entry exists for a term, it is not possible to reset this term to status 2 after this term has been set to status 3.

Once you have changed the status of a status 1 term, you cannot change the status of this term back to New.

For more information on deleting terms without glossary entries, and setting the status of terms with glossary entries for deletion, see Deleting Terms.