Selecting a discrepancy to edit the deferral details

This page allows you to specify the search criteria to retrieve discrepancy whose deferral report has to be edited. You can enter the discrepancy number, log item number, aircraft registration number and ATA number to retrieve the discrepancy. Information displayed in the multiline includes details such as the processing status, tracking status, Fault number and cause number.

Select the “Edit Deferral Report” link under the “Discrepancy Processing” business component.

The “Select Discrepancy” page appears.

To search for a discrepancy

Enter the following in the “Search Criteria” group box to search for a discrepancy. Data entry in the following fields is optional:

Search ID

Use the drop-down list box to select the search ID. The system retrieves the discrepancies based on the filter criteria specified for the search ID. Leave this field blank if you wish to enter the search criteria fields.

Select the “Edit” link alongside, to modify the search criteria for the selected search ID.

Note: You can also create a new search ID using the “Create Adv. Search ID” link available at the bottom of the page.

Processing Status	Use the drop-down list box to select the processing status of the discrepancy. The system lists the options “None”, “Under Analysis” and “Analyzed”. The system retrieves discrepancies of the status selected here. Leave this field blank to retrieve all the discrepancies, irrespective of their processing status.
Discrepancy #	The code identifying the discrepancy. (Alphanumeric, 40). You can enter the number in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all the discrepancies with number similar to the value entered here.
Log Item #	The code identifying the log Item which contains the discrepancy details. (Alphanumeric, 40). You can enter the number in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all the log items with number similar to the value entered here.
Aircraft Reg #	The registration number of the aircraft against which the discrepancy has been reported (Alphanumeric, 30). You can enter the number in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all the Log Item # and the discrepancies reported for the aircraft with registration number similar to the value entered here.
ATA #	The ATA chapter on which discrepancy has been reported. (Alphanumeric, 16). You can enter the number in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all the Log Item # and the discrepancies reported for the ATA chapter entered here.

Click the “Search” pushbutton to display the search results.

Note: The system retrieves all the discrepancies and the Log Item # available for the discrepancies.

The system displays the following in the “Search Results” multiline:

Discrepancy #	The code identifying the discrepancy.
Log Item #	The code identifying the log Item which contains the discrepancy details.
Discrepancy Description	The description of the discrepancy.
Aircraft Reg #	The registration number of the aircraft against which the discrepancy has been reported.
ATA #	The ATA chapter on which discrepancy has been reported.
Maint. Report #	The number of the maintenance report for which discrepancies have been deferred.
Maint. Report Description	The textual description of the maintenance report.
Maint. Report Class	The class to which the maintenance report belongs.
Processing Status	The processing status of the discrepancy, which can be “None”, “Under Analysis” and “Analyzed”.
Tracking Status	The user-defined tracking status defined for the discrepancy.

Note: You can define tracking statuses in the “Maintain Discrepancy Attributes” activity of the “Common Masters” business component.

Fault #	The fault code defined in the “Fault Isolation Manual” business component that is applicable to the discrepancy being reported.
Cause #	The number identifying the cause code, which has been associated to the discrepancy.
Aircraft Model #	The model number of the aircraft for which the against which the discrepancy has been reported.

To confirm deferral details

Check the box in the “Select” column of the multiline to mark the discrepancies for which deferral details must be confirmed.
Click the “Confirm Deferral” pushbutton to confirm the deferral details.

Note: This action is workflow-enabled. Notification messages can be sent as per the settings you have defined in the "Workflow Management" business component.

The system updates the record status of the discrepancies to “Deferred”.

To edit deferral details

Click the hyperlinked discrepancy number in the multiline, to defer the discrepancy.

What you can do in this page

Retrieve Discrepancies

Confirm and edit deferral details

Specify search criteria and retrieve discrepancies

You can specify the search criteria and retrieve discrepancies whose deferral report has to be edited.

Specify the required search criteria and click the “Search” pushbutton.
Based on the search criteria, the discrepancies are retrieved and details are displayed in the multiline.