Change Overview (SAP Library - Engineering Change Management (LO-ECH))

Change Overview

The change overview gives you information on one or more change master records or ECRs. You can use output parameters to define the scope of the information you see. You can call this information and print it from the Engineering Change Management menu.

Limiting Selection Criteria

You can limit the choice of change numbers using the following data:

Status
Change type (for ECR / ECO)

Authorization group

Output Parameters

The output parameters determine the scope of information in the change overview.

You can display the following data from the change master record or ECR:

Object management records

If you select this indicator, all the object management records for the change number are displayed.

The object management records are sorted by object type. For example, first you see all the records for material BOMs, then the records for documents, and so on.

Object types

If you select this indicator, the object types that can be processed with this change number are displayed. The Object type active for change number indicator is set for these object types.

If object management records are supported for an object type (Object management record required per object indicator), this object type is indicated by the term Object management.

Alternative dates

If you select this indicator, all the alternative dates are displayed. You see the key and the date itself.

Long text

If you set this indicator, all the long texts for the change number are displayed in full.

Change number status

If you select this indicator, the following data is displayed for each change master record:

System status (for ECR / ECO)
User status (if available)

Object management data status

If you select this indicator, the following data is displayed for each object management record:

System status (for ECR / ECO)
User status (if available)

Displaying active statuses only

This indicator controls the range of statuses displayed. You can use this indicator if you have selected either the Change number status indicator or the Object management data status indicator.

Setting the indicator:

Set this indicator if you want only the active status to be taken into consideration. To do this, select Goto ® Status administration (Maintaining the change master record).

A status is regarded as active if it:

has been selected as active (for example, All objects checked)
is selected as active (for example, ECO incomplete)

An active status is displayed with history. Every time a status is selected or deleted, the action is logged with date and user.
However, if the last action was to delete the status, it will no longer be active in the current processing situation and therefore cannot be found in the list.

Choosing not to select the indicator:

If you want all statuses that have already been selected or deleted to be taken into account, then do not select the indicator.

You see the change header data and the master data you selected in a display block.

See also:

Displaying a Change Overview