Understanding Supplemental Data

You can enter supplemental data to further define the work orders in the system. Such supplemental data is useful for reporting and tracking work order details that are not included in the record types, such as safety procedures.

You set up and maintain supplemental data in work order databases. Work order databases are user-defined codes (00/WD). For example, you might set up supplemental data for an engineering change order database. The data types might include detail types, pending orders, and so on. You can set up the system to validate that the values that you enter on supplemental data forms match the values that you set up in user-defined code tables.

If the specification data type does not relate to an existing user-defined code or generic message code, you can set up a new user-defined code table. It is recommended that you use systems 55 through 59, inclusive, to set up the new tables. User-defined code tables that you set up for these systems are not modified during any reinstall processes.