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 Maintenance of Engineering Change Numbers

Use

You can use the features of this function to process engineering change numbers (ECN) as part of the engineering change collaboration process.

Features

ECN Overview

From the ECN overview, you can perform the following activities:

  • Assign a status profile

  • Revoke the status profile assignment

  • Change the status of the ECN

    The system then executes status actions or status transition actions according to the assigned status profile.

  • View and branch to any discussions that exist

  • Define notifications

  • Set authorizations

    You can assign administration, read, or write authorization for the object to a user, a user group, a role or an organization. You can also assign authorization at field group level. However, note that authorization give to the object or to a field group by a status profile has higher priority than the authorization that you set here. For more information, see Object Authorizations per Status .

    We deliver the following BAdI implementations for user-defined actions for ECN status transitions:

    • CFX_ECN_ LOCK

      This implementation locks an engineering change number (ECN) and prevents it from being edited.

    • CFX_ECN_STATUS_TRANS

      This implementation releases and creates a new version of objects attached to an ECN.

    • CFX_ECN_UNLOCK

      This implementation unlocks an engineering change number (ECN) and allows it to be edited.

    • CFX_ LOCK _ATT_OBJS

      This implementation locks objects attached to an ECN. However, the ECN itself can still be edited.

    • CFX_UNLOCK_ATT_OBJS

      This implementation unlocks objects attached to an ECN and allows them to be edited.

      For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) in Customizing for Collaboration Folders under Start of the navigation path User-Defined Actions for Status Transitions Next navigation step BAdI: User-Defined Actions for Status Transitions End of the navigation path .

  • General functions

ECN Version Overview

From the ECN version overview, you can perform the following activities:

  • Change the ECN

  • Export the ECN as a PDX package

  • Assign a document

  • Link a bill of material (BOM), a document, a material, or a manufacturer part number (MPN)

    The system creates a new version of the object being linked.

See also:

An ECN behaves like a generic object. For more information, see Generic Object .