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 Definition of Responsibility

Use

Defining who is responsible for a particular document usually requires the user to perform certain tasks or carry certain responsibilities. For example, engineering/design drawings are processed for different products in different offices that are also responsible for the appropriate document info records.

Integration

Entries you make regarding the person responsible are an important search criterion (main parameter) for searching for a document.

Prerequisites

In Customizing for the Document Management System, you can define design offices or laboratories by choosing Start of the navigation path General Data Next navigation step Define laboratories/design offices. End of the navigation path

Features

There are two fields for describing the employee subgroup for the document:

  • User

    When you create a document, the system enters your user name in this field as a default. You can overwrite this with any user name defined in your SAP system.

    The following data from the user address Start of the navigation path (System Next navigation step User profile Next navigation step User address) End of the navigation path is displayed for the user:

    • Next to the User field, you see the Department

    • First name , last name , department , extension number

      If you copy from an existing document, the user in the source document is copied to the new document as a default value.

  • Laboratory/office

    Next to the key, the system displays the text describing the office or laboratory.