User Status (SAP Library - Engineering Change Management (LO-ECH))

User Status

Use

You can use company-specific user statuses to control the process flow for changes of a change master record and of object management records. When you process a change master record, the system determines which user statuses are supported in the current situation.

Prerequisites

The user status can be represented in the form of a status profile. You define status profiles by choosing Change Type → Define Status Profiles in Customizing for Engineering Change Management.

When you define a status profile, you must allocate the status profile to an object type. This allocation determines whether the status profile is defined for change master records or object management records.

The following object types are relevant to Engineering Change Management:

· Engineering Change Management (ECH) Master Record

With this status profile, which is defined for the change master, you can process only the change header.

· Engineering Change Management Objects

With this status profile, which is defined for the object management record, you can process only object management records.

Note

In Customizing you have the option of defining a status profile that is valid for changes to both the change header and object management record.

Features

The process flow is controlled for the change header and object management records:

· The user status of the change header controls changes to the change master record (for example, CHG-01).

· The user status of the object management records controls changes to the individual object management records (for example, Material BOM MA-1, Plant 0001, Usage 1).

Note

There is no link between the user statuses of different object management records for a change master record. There is also no link between these user statuses and the user status of the change header. The system does not check the status of other objects when you set a user status.

If you want to use user statuses to control the change to the change header or object management record, you maintain a status profile in the change master.

Status Network

The status profile represents a network of statuses. In this network, different statuses are connected to each other.

In any processing situation, you can only set a status that is allowed in this situation. You can display the latter with the possible entries function.