Diagnosis
You want to delete a validity period for the master inspectioncharacteristic and have made a setting in Customizing that the masterinspection characteristic should be distributed using ALE on saving.However, the validity period cannot be deleted in the target system inthe following situations:

• The only validity period for this master inspection characteristic is
the one that you want to delete. After deletion, there would be novalidity period in the system.

• A version of the validity period that you want to delete is still used
in the target system.

Procedure
When you delete the master inspection characteristic, you must ensure,if necessary, that the same status for your master inspectioncharacteristics exists in the target systems.