Maintaining User Statuses with a Status
Profile
Prerequisites
Before you perform this function, you must define a status profile for the required sequence of statuses in Customizing for Engineering Change Management, by choosing Change Type → Define Status Profiles. This status profile must be supported for the change header or the object management record.
Procedure
The function used to maintain the user status is the same for the change header and for object management record. When you choose the possible entries key, you see the status profiles for the object type (change header or object management record) you are currently processing.
· If you want to use the user status to control changes to the change master record, go to the change header.
· If you want to use the user status to control changes to a change object, go to the detail screen of the object management record concerned.
To maintain a user status:
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1. Choose Edit → Set Status Profile.
2.
The Status profile dialog box appears. From the possible entries, 
copy the status profile that you require.
The system displays:
– The screen you called the function from (for example, Change Header).
– An extra line for user statuses.
When you define a status profile, you define which statuses are shown and the
order in which they are shown by assigning a position and priority to
individual statuses.
3. To display the user status with its description, choose the Status mgmt pushbutton (or choose Goto → Status Management from the menu).
The Change Status screen appears. This screen shows some system statuses (for example, Created) as well as the user statuses. This system status only offers information in a simple change master record. It offers controlling functions for an engineering change request.
The user statuses are displayed that can be set in this processing situation in the right-hand side of the screen.
4. Select a user status.
When you save the change master, the user status is saved as well.