New Release Strategy in case of PO amendment

Dear All,
We have the release strategy at PO level on 3 parameters,
Purchasing Group, Value and Document type.. for each parameter we have created the characteristics EKKO- EKGRP, EKKO-BSART, EKKO-GNETW. Till date system is working ok and trigreeeing the release strategy as per it should.
When ever users edit the PO, again system sets the release strategy as per above logic.
Now our requiremet is, when ever user edite the PO value or PO quantity, system should trigger a new release strategy.I come to know that, SAP have a provision to maintain the release strategy on "Version level also", I have tried the same but i facing one problem, when we try to create the characteristic based on Version , system creates it and put field name "REVNO", data types is coming "CHAR".
Can any one send me a user manual and steps for this.
Thanks in advance,.
Vikas

Hi,
You can set a control within Config. there is a parameter called as release indicator.
Follow this IMG path:
SPRO> Materials Management>Purchasing>Purchase Order>Release Procedure for Purchase Orders>Define Release Procedure for Purchase Orders>Release indicator
1     Cannot be changed
2     Changeable, no new determination of strategy
3     Changeable, new release in case of new strategy
4     Changeable, new release in case of new strat. or val. change
5     Changeable, new release if new strategy/outputted
6     Changeable, new rel. if new strat. or value change/outputted
     Changeable, new release in case of new strategy
Changeability of purchasing document during/after release which means how the system reacts if an internal or external purchasing document is changed after the start of the release procedure.
Note that the values 1 to 4 apply to internal purchasing documents (purchase requisitions) and the values 1 bis6 to external purchasing documents.
So you would need to set this Indicator for the specific release Id. which specifies whether the purchasing document can be processed in or is blocked for follow-on functions.
Hope this explanation was clear.
Prashant Rathore.

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and the system still applies the old rules for determining the Release.
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The Only way to revoke the SES is to Restore back the Old Strategy that
was prior to 03 in the customizing.So now what will happen is that by
applying the Old Rules the System will be able to revoke the SES that#s
using the Old one. Once the necessary SES are revoked then go back to
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are some documents in the System that uses it and even if you change the
Strategy the Old records will not get AUTOMATICALLY UPDATED by the
system.The Release Strategy routine has to run again to update the
values. This is Possible by changing the document SES ,
This change will happen only if the SES is not accepted and if its
accepted then you need to revoke and to revoke you need to restore the
old strategy , revoke and then change the SES , and have to go back to
customizing and Start using the New strategy from now on by doing so the
Routine will update the old record with the new strategy.
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Problem in purchase requisition release strategy code

Hi
We are facing a problem in purchase requisition, a new release strategy was created and change request transported but when PR is displayed in release strategy chart a same user is showed in different release strategy code.
Note: new strategy was copied from other.
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hi,
As you said tht you have copied the release stategy n created the new one...
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