Approving Inheritance Requests (SAP Library

Approving Inheritance Requests

Use

This procedure describes how you approve an inheritance request manually. Only when an inheritance request has been approved is the inheritance relationship assigned the status Ready to inherit and the corresponding data can be passed on from the source specification to the target specification for the inheritance by the background job.

Note

Under certain conditions, inheritance requests are approved automatically when you create the inheritance relationship (see Inheritance).

Prerequisites

You have executed the procedure Editing Specifications and are on the screen for editing the header data of the specification for which you want to approve an inheritance request.

The inheritance relationship for which you want to approve the inheritance request has the status Requested ( This graphic is explained in the accompanying text

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text

For more prerequisites, for example concerning the authorizations required, see Inheritance.

Procedure

Choose the Relationships tab page.

In the corresponding table, select the line of the inheritance relationship that you want to approve.

Choose

Result

The inheritance relationship is assigned the approval status Approved ( This graphic is explained in the accompanying text ) and the status Ready to inherit (). The next background job for the inheritance updates the data in the target specification and sets the status Consistent () or, if there are errors, Incorrect ().