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3269066 - "Do Not Release Immediately" in Manage Maintenance Plans app not working for maintenance order - SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Symptom

When creating a maintenance plan in Manage Maintenance Plans app without selecting the checkbox "Do Not Release Immediately", the maintenance order is not released immediately.

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Cause

At item level the flag "Do Not Release Immediately" works in the following manner:

  1. If the field "Appr Reqd" in SSCUI "approval settings for maintenance orders" is marked as Yes, then
    • If the Check box "Do Not Release Immediately" is checked, then the called object will be created with System Status CRTD ORAR (meaning the maintenance order is in Approval Phase). An approver has to approve this maintenance order to move it to ORAP status and then Release the order to set the status REL (Preparation phase) 
    • If the Check box "Do Not Release Immediately" is unchecked, then the called object will be created with System Status CRTD ORAP (maintenance order is Approval ). The  planner need to release the order to move it to preparation phase with status REL. 
  2. If the field "Appr Reqd" in SSCUI "approval settings for maintenance orders" is marked as No (unchecked) then
    • If the Check box "Do Not Release Immediately" is checked, then the called object will be created with System Status CRTD (meaning the maintenance order is in Planning Phase).
    • If the Check box "Do Not Release Immediately" is unchecked, then the called object will be created with System Status REL (maintenance order is auto released and in preparation phase).

Resolution

If the field "Appr Reqd" in SSCUI "approval settings for maintenance orders" is marked as No, it means that approve process(auto approve or manually approve) is not active for maintenance order.  

If the Check box "Do Not Release Immediately" is unchecked, then the called object will be created with System Status REL (maintenance order is auto released and in preparation phase).

Release immediately only works when field "Appr Reqd" in SSCUI "approval settings for maintenance orders" is marked as No and check box "Do Not Release Immediately " is unchecked.

Keywords

Do Not Release Immediately, Appr Reqd, Approval settings for maintenance orders, Maintenance plan, CRTD, ORAR, ORAP, REL , KBA , PM-FIO , Fiori User Interface (UI) for PM , PM-FIO-2CL , Fiori User Interface (UI) for PM (Public Cloud) , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud all versions