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 Digital Signature for Certificates

 

With this product feature, you can specify that a digital signature is required for quality certificates to set the status Certificate filed and inspected.

Technical Details

Technical Name of Product Feature

QM_CC_2015_DIG_SIGN_CERT

Product Feature Is

New

Country Dependency

Valid for all countries

Software Component Version

SAP_APPL

Application Component

QM-CA

Available as of

SAP enhancement package 7 (SP11) for SAP ERP 6.0

Required Business Functions

Not applicable

Additional Details

If you have made the settings described under Effects on Customizing, the status Certificate filed and inspected is no longer displayed in the input help for the assignment of statuses to a certificate. Instead, you can set this status using a pushbutton, which is displayed to the right of the field for entering the certificate status.

As soon as you have entered the digital signature either when processing the quality certificate or when making the usage decision, the status Certificate filed and inspected is set for the certificate.

Under Start of the navigation path Environment Next navigation step Display Signature End of the navigation path, you can display the details of the signatory and the signature. This dialog box also shows in which transaction the signature was entered.

Effects on Customizing

This function is active only if you have set the Digital Signature for Certificates indicator for the business process Inspection Master Data Processing in Customizing under Start of the navigation path Quality Management Next navigation step Basic Settings Next navigation step Maintain Settings at Client Level End of the navigation path.

In addition, you must specify the settings for the signature type and the signature strategy in Customizing under Start of the navigation path Quality Management Next navigation step QM in Logistics Next navigation step QM in Procurement Next navigation step Define Keys for Certificate Processing End of the navigation path. The settings are only possible for Enhanced certificate processing.

See also

For more information about quality certificates, see SAP Library under Start of the navigation path Quality Management Next navigation step Quality Certificates End of the navigation path.