Status Management (SAP Library - Quality Certificates (QM-CA))

Status Management

Use

The certificate profiles use the SAP status management function. This allows the system to continuously document the processing status of a profile. The status of a profile determines whether or not certain functions can be executed. Each individual status thereby fulfills two functions:

It informs you that a particular stage has been reached (for example, "Profile has been released").
It determines which activities may or may not be carried out next (for example: you can change the profile; you cannot assign the profile).

There are two status types:

System status

The system status is determined automatically by the activities you carry out. You cannot change a system status manually (Exception: You are blocking or releasing a profile).

User status

You can define in Customizing whether you want to work with or without user statuses for each certificate type. Individual user statuses are grouped together into status profiles. You can control the individual processing steps for a certificate profile using user statuses and their associated authorizations.

Example

For example, user statuses can be used to:

Release certificate profiles in stages (involving several people)
Stop the assignment of outdated certificate profiles
Delete locked certificate profiles