I have a piece of equipment which was removed from functional location A on 01.05.08. I wish to create a notification today to record history for the equipment. However, if I enter the equipment number I cannot reference it back to the functional location it was installed in at the time of failure. SAP just records the equipment number and leaves the functional location field blank.

Anyone know if/how I can do this?

David

I would ask you, your equipment set deactivate or deletion flag? If not, I think you can create notification for a past. SAP just tell the information dialog box to alert you.

The equipment is still active but it is no longer installed at the functional location I wish to report on.

In face, you did the dismantle equipment from FL and would to record some task of equipment refer to FL. I think it impossible to do that.

So, I would like to ask you why you want to report it and another question, is the task in the past or present after you dismantle?

I am wishing to make a record of past events - findings from failure analysis on the equipment.

Sure, I knew that you need to analysis equipment failure.

- Is equipment you dismantled have install to new FL?
- When you analyze failure from a past, do you use FL information or which level do you analyze? I think you need only equipment level for failure analysis. So, not necessary to use FL for your method except you analyze where location or FL level.

You could raise an activity notification against the functional location and reference the equipment as an object. Once the equipment is dismantled I do not know of a good way to include both eq and fl in a notification of work done in the past.

How do you do this? I know of Orders having a list of Objects but not notifications.

I was thinking of a notification and order pair, the object list is available in the order as you say. I know its not elegant.

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Originally posted by David - Australia:
I am wishing to make a record of past events - findings from failure analysis on the equipment.

its going to be an ABAP query, but if you enabled the change documents in PM, you can track the history of the installation FLoc A to None to Floc B) of the equipment. from that, you can link to QMEL table for your notification history.