Experts,
Good afternoon. Our company is currently enhancing the SAP PLM process. Today when a change to a BOM (or NEW BOM) is sent from PLM an ECN is created with a valid from date. My question is this:
How do we lock the VALID FROM date at the header from editing?
Business Case: In order to guide/curtail our users to use the ALTERNATE DATES area of an ECN and assign objects, we want to be able to restrict the ability to change the header VALID FROM date of the ECN. Although this field is gray from editing, the drop-down calendar is still available to change the date.
In Config I have already tried to use a DATE CHECK and specify a range of 9999 to restrict the change, but it also restricts the date range for an ALTERNATE DATE. I also do know that creating screen variants is an option, but we would rather not have to use new TCODES.
For reasons related to the business requirement, we want the VALID FROM date sent from PLM to remain unchanged and protected, and force users to create ALTERNATE DATES via CC02 if/when the need is necessary.
Thanks for your time and i look forward to your expert advise (screenshot attached)