Implementation project - needed to activate ChRM?

Dear SolMan gurus.
Is needed to activate a sap solman change management during creating an Implementation project? Or in other words, how to create task list for implementation project without activating ChRM?
Thank you for you answers.
Best regards,
Petr Syka

Hi
If you want to use task list and other functionalities given under
System Landscape tab->change request tab..................in solar_project_admin project
you need to activate charms which helps to automate the transport mechanism for managed systems like ecc etc
but in case you just want to implement or execute SAP ecc blueprinting and store doc etc you dont need to activate charms for that and you won't get any task list or phase wise maintenance cycle etc.
hope that ans ur query
regards
prakhar

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