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 Status Management

Use

This function informs you about the status of the maintenance plans and their meaning.

Features

The system statuses for the maintenance plan are set internally by the system within the general SAP Status Management. For example, the system sets the status Created if you create a maintenance plan, or it sets the status Deletion flag if you flag a maintenance plan for archiving.

Status “Created”

  • Prerequisites

    The maintenance plan is created.

  • Effects

    Changes to the maintenance plan, the assignment of a maintenance item and maintenance task list as well as the scheduling of the maintenance plan are possible.

  • Special features

    None.

Status “Deletion flag”

  • Prerequisites

    None.

  • Effects

    You mark a maintenance plan for archiving with the status Deletion flag . The system does not generate any further maintenance calls for this maintenance plan. The maintenance plan can no longer be scheduled.

  • Special features

    You can reset the status as required.

Status “Deleted”

  • Prerequisites

    • The maintenance plan has the status Deletion flag .

    • All the maintenance calls for the maintenance plan which are called have the status Completed .

    • If you use maintenance plans for pieces of equipment of category Production resources/tools (PRT equipment) in your company, and you set the indicator Use in PRT equipment in the initial run variant, the maintenance plan can also no longer be used in PRT equipment.For more information, see Variant Settings for the Initial Archiving Run (PM-PRM-MP) .

  • Effects

    The status Deleted is set by the initial run program for archiving.

  • Special features

    You can no longer reset the status.

Status “Inactive”

  • Prerequisites

    The status Deletion flag cannot be set for the maintenance plan.

  • Effects

    If you set the status Inactive for a maintenance plan, it can no longer be scheduled. This means that the system does not generate any maintenance calls or maintenance call objects for this maintenance plan.

    Note Note

    From Relase 4.0A, the status Inactive replaces the field Lock for calls which you could set in the maintenance plan using Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step Maintenance plan additional data End of the navigation path . The system automatically converts the previous indicator to the status Inactive .

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  • Special features

    You can reactivate the maintenance plan if necessary.