Characteristic Groups

Characteristic Groups

Use

You can define characteristic groups for use in presentation in the Executive Information System. These let you call up a specific group of characteristics when you create a report.

When you define a report without entering a characteristic group, the system offers you all the characteristics of the aspect to choose from. If you enter a characteristic group, however, the system offers only those characteristics assigned to that group.

A typical way to use this function might be to group together all the region- and customer-related characteristics which the sales director might use when he or she calls up a report. For production management, you might define a second characteristic group which contains characteristics relevant to the product or profit center.

The characteristic groups are set up in Customizing.

Activities

You can define a specific characteristic group in your user parameters using parameter ID MKG; use System ® User defaults ® Own data. This lets you limit the choice of characteristics for individual users.

You can find general information on drilldown reporting, and also the appropriate procedures in cross-application online documentation CA - Drilldown Reporting.

See also:

Key figure groups