Below article is taken from SAP Help Documentation.
The Note Assistant displays SAP Notes according to their implementation status and their processing status. The implementation status of an SAP Note is determined by the system according to existing information. The processing status is specified by the user.
Remember that the system checks whether the processing status you have set is consistent with the implementation status of the correction instructions. For example, you can only set the processing status as ‘finished’ if all the relevant corrections have been implemented (implementation status: ‘Completely implemented’ or ‘Cannot be implemented’).
If the implementation status changes afterwards so that it is no longer compatible with the previous processing status (after you have imported a Support Package, for example), the system indicates that the SAP Note is inconsistent.
Processing Status
The user who is processing an SAP Note specifies its processing status. This status indicates whether you have implemented an SAP Note. You can set the following processing statuses in the Note Assistant:
- New: You have loaded the SAP Note into your system, but have not yet processed it.
- In Processing: A user is processing the SAP Note.
- Completed: You have followed the instructions in the SAP Note and implemented any corrections in your system. The processing of the SAP Note has now been completed.
- Not relevant: You have read the SAP Note and decided that it is not relevant, for example because it refers to a function that you do not user.
You can set the processing status for multiple notes at the same time.
Implementation Status
If an SAP Note contains correction instructions, the implementation status indicates whether all the relevant correction instructions in the note have been implemented in the system.
The system sets the implementation status automatically. Possible values are:
- Incompletely implemented: Not all the relevant correction instructions have been implemented or some have been implemented only in part. The objects that need to be corrected are inconsistent. You must therefore implement this SAP Note in your system again.
- Obsolete version implemented: SAP has corrected an SAP Note that contained errors. Implement this note in your system again.
- Can be implemented: The SAP Note contains correction instructions that you may need to implement in your system.
- Completely implemented: The corrections in the SAP Note have been implemented completely in your system. No action is required.
- Cannot be implemented: The SAP Note does not contain any correction instructions that you can implement in your system. No action is required.
- Obsolete: After you implemented the corrections in the Note, you imported a Support Package that also contains these corrections. The errors have now been removed.
