Status Profile
Status Profile
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2. Go to Define Status Profiles. Choose New Entries and enter code & description for your status
profile:
3. Choose object types for status profile. Eg: Sales order header or sales order item for which the
status profile is to be applied to.
4. Enter your status say for price check, specify lowest status number (which will render any statuses
lower than the lowest number specified, inactive) and highest status number (which will decide the
upper limit of status numbers which may be activated if this status is active).
Set initial indicator for your required status, generally system sets initial automatically for the first
status.
Specify authorization key in authorization code field. (See below for creation of authorization key).
5. Double click on your status (PRC) and choose transaction control. Select the activities which are to
be checked with this status.
For eg: confirmation of order, creation subsequent documents like delivery & billing documents is
forbidden.
Save status profile.
6. Assign status profile to document types (VOV8) & item categories (VOV7) as required.
Authorization Key
Enter authorization key & description in BS52 and save. Authorization key is assigned to status profile
and is used to create authorization for user role.
Users and Authorizations
Authorizations to perform a particular action in the R/3 system can be created (and included in
required user roles) via authorization objects. Create authorization for authorization object
B_USERSTAT
2. Choose change user role and go to menu tab. Add transaction (say VA02) for which you want to
give authorization to change user status for sales order header or item
3. Go to Authorization tab and choose ‘change authorization data’. Maintain status management for
authorization object B_USERSTAT, specify object category as chosen (VBK or VBP), authorization
key, and status profile. Generate authorization.
4. Go to user tab and enter user ids which are to have role with authorization for status profile and
save.
Click on object status button (Sales document header status tab à object status) and both statuses
from status profile can be seen.
After selecting ZRE, overall blkd status changed to ‘Not blocked’ as under: