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[Former Member]

Hi Friends,

We have a requirement wherein I need to fetch the status of a project and status of its WBS project based on three parameters - project definition , project profile and WBS profile. Any pointer on this will be more helpful and also please explain me the following.

1) How are project definitions ,project profile and its status are linked ?

2) Do these links are maintained in any database tables?

Any pointers will be rewarded.

Regards

[Former Member]

Hi Amit,

You can use function modules STATUS_READ or STATUS_READ_MULTI to find the statuses of any object. You can find the OBJNR of project from table PROJ and OBJNR of WBS from table PRPS.

It is not necessary to know the project profile to find out the status of a project or a WBS.

Anuradha

[Former Member]

Hi,

The function module STATUS_READ will get you the status of the project as well as the WBS element, you need to mention the type of the object in the parameters. The Tables JSTO and JEST will give you a fair idea on what object type needs to be passed, just do a F4 on the object type.

Regards

Tushar

[Former Member]

Hi

We have two kind of statuses in SAP, System and User Status.

System statuses are not configurable like CRTD,PREL, REL etc.

User statuses can be maintained in TCode OK02.

For creating a project we require Project Profile which contains default values for Project as Organisational data, Controlling, Scheduling and WBS Status Proilfes among other profiles.

Once we create a Project using a particular project profile we inherit these deafult values in the project definition which is then passed on to the lower level WBS elements.

If you want to capture the progression of project for its entire cycle you can use project versions to get the status for different time frames.

Regards

Sammar

[Former Member]

Every project contains Project Profile. Project profile contains status profile for WBS elements.

We can have a different status profile at Network and activity level. So if you want to give status control at network level also, create new status profile and assign it to network type (OPSC). Network type is assigned to Network profile and Network profile is finally assigned to Project Profile.

I hope you have understood the link now .

Regards

Ashish

[Former Member]

Hi Amit,

The project definition is the binding framework for all organizational elements within a project.

You can also define nonbinding start and finish dates for the project.

When you create a work breakdown structure, the corresponding project definition is created

automatically.

In the project definition, you can maintain default values for a project such as the settlement rule.

The default values are copied for new WBS elements that you create for this project.

A project profile is necessary to create a work breakdown structure.

The project profile contains default values and parameters for managing your project, for

example, the settlement profile, the factory calendar for scheduling, or settings for graphics.

You can maintain the values for the project profile in Customizing for the Project System.

When you create a work breakdown structure, you must enter a project profile the project

definition. You can change default values from the project profile when you are working in the

work breakdown structure.

The values for the project definition are copy from the template or project profile when you create

a work breakdown structure. If you create a work breakdown structure using a template but enter

a project profile different from the one in the template, you can choose whether to adopt the

default values from the template or those from the project profile.

If you make later changes to the project profile, the changes have no effect on the values taken

from the project profile and inserted into existing project definitions.

Basically, Project profile is necessary to create a project and a project definition is necessary to have various WBS elements in a project. And based upon the phase(Quatation,Order, Execution,Closing) of the project, different user/ system statuses are maintained in the system.

Thanks,

Dhruv Kumar Malhotra

Edited by: Dhruv Kumar Malhotra on Jan 6, 2009 7:12 AM

[Former Member]

Hi

Project profile contains default status profiles for WBS and project defination.

Table PROJ (Proj. Def)-- Fields --STSPD (PD sts. profile) and STSPR (WBS sts. prof.)

Table PRPS has the field for WBS number i.e. Object number..PSPNR

This can be the input to table JSTO where u can get STSMA... this can then be the input for TJ30 to get individual status.

Regards