Backwards Counters and Maintenance Plans

[Former Member]

HI Experts,

I am looking for information relating to setting up backward counters to schedule Maintenance Plans. When I try to create a Maintenance Plan linked to a Backward Counter, I receive the error "Only counters that run forwards can be entered - Error IP124" . What am I doing wrong? How can I use backwards counters with maintenance plans?

We have several clocks that count down the hours til the next major or minor pm is due. The technician manually records the time from these clocks. Worst case is that we can subtract the counter time from a constant if we have to, but I'd like to have the technician enter in the clock time directly with out any manipulation needed.

Thanks in advance,

[Former Member]

William,

OSS note 115087 describes this issue and offers a possible solution. Hope it helps!

Paul

[Former Member]

I am unable to find note 115087 on http://www.sapossnotes.com/search?q=115087

The return I get is "No posts matching the query: 115087. Show all posts"

Is this note possibly archived or at a different location?

Thank You for your assistance in advance.

[Former Member]

Sorry, William, I'm not familiar with that web site. I found the note by searching the SAP Support Portal (service.sap.com/support).

Paul

[paul_meehan]

Hi,

The situation is exactly as the message says. Maintenance planning cannot work with backward counters so the counters must count upwards only. You probably will need to work with entering a difference, when X amount of time difference has occured then trigger the maintenance call.

-Paul