What is a Status Profile?
A status profile is created in customizing per order type.
Within a status profile you can
Define user statuses and document their function in long texts
Specify the expected sequence of user statuses by assigning a "status number" to each user status
Define an initial status, which is automatically set when the object is created
Specify that a user status should automatically be activated, if a certain business transaction is carried out
Allow or forbid certain transactions, if a status is active
Status Numbers
For every user status you can define a status number. With the help of the status number you determine the sequence in which the user statuses are activated.
If you do not assign a status number to a user status, the user status can always be activated. However, only one user status with a status number can be active at any given time.
If you assign a status number to a user status, you must also specify a lowest and a highest status number for the user status. These limit the status number interval from which the next user status can be selected.
Example
You have defined the following user statuses with the following status numbers in a status profile:
Example of User Statuses with Status Numbers
Status no. |
Status |
Lowest no. |
Highest no. |
- |
Planning locked |
- |
- |
1 |
Preparation |
1 |
2 |
2 |
Execution |
1 |
3 |
3 |
Check |
2 |
4 |
4 |
Completion |
4 |
4 |
In this example, ths status "planning locked" can always be activated since it has no status number.
Status "preparation" must be activated first. When status "preparation" is active, it is possible to activate status "execution".
If status "execution" is active, you can activate either status "preparation" or status "check".
Note
The lowest and highest number of the highest activated status number is always valid. In the above example it would therefore not be possible to first activate status "execution" from status "check" and to then activate status "preparation" from status "execution".
If status "check" is activated, you can activate either status "execution" or status "completion". Once status "completion" is activated, a return to preceding statuses is no longer possible.