reactivation of historical PM/CS order

[Matthias038]

Hi,

Does anyone know a trick how to get back a historical order to life?

What I understood so far there is a change in category (30 ==> 31) which classifies the order as being historical, but it is not archived. If you start with archiving you can trigger the creation of historical orders (IW61).

There is also only a reduced amount of order data available in the system after I made it a historical one.

So my guess is that the is no chance of reactivating a historical order, but maybe one of you knows the trick.

Thanks in advance.

Matthias

[peter_atkin · Accepted solution]

Hi Matthias,

As far as I am aware there is no way of converting an historical order to a normal PM/CS order.

PeteA

[Matthias038 · Accepted solution]

Hi Peter,

thanks for your high-speed answer. I actually hoped to get your attention :-).

So when you also don't see a chance I take it for granted. I just asked the user back if the order was also archived. When my memory does not play tricks on me I think there is also a way of reloading archived records, but that was on purchase orders when I did it once... and it is 10 years ago.

Does the chance gets better when we would have an archived record as well?

thx a lot

Matthias

[peter_atkin · Accepted solution]

Matthias

Although we have archived orders at previous clients, I have never done the opposite...

The problem would be in the reinstatement of all the dependent objects e.g. (confirmations, material documents, system/user status information etc..). My guess is that quite a lot of this information is not archived in the first place.

If you know where the data has been archived to, then you could go and investigate exactly how much of the order history is retained.

In addition, I don't even know if there are any standard transactions to reinstate any archived data..

PeteA

[Matthias038 · Accepted solution]

Hi Peter,

thanks again for the details and confirming my guesses.

At least this is what we always tell the users to check carefully, if everything can be archived... 🙂

We will have to find another way.

have a beautiful week ahead.

Matthias