Identifiers 

Use

Depending on the requirements of your enterprise or your processes, you may need additional information to describe your formulas and recipes, such as explanations in the form of texts or different descriptions that you use depending on the context.

This section tells you which functions you can use to add this information to your recipes or formulas and where they are available.

Prerequisites

·        If you want to use identifiers to describe your recipes or formulas, the identification types you need must have been defined in your system (see Customizing for Recipe Management, IMG activity Set Up EH&S Customizing).

·        Using identification listings, you specify where the identifiers entered are used and which identifiers can be used as alternatives (see Customizing for Formulas, IMG activity Define and Assign Values to Environment Parameters).

Features

You can use the following options to add additional texts and descriptions to your recipes and formulas:

·        Definition of a remark (only valid for formulas)

You can use this option to enter any short pieces of information in the formula header. The remark is language-independent. You can use it to select formulas in the formula search.

·        Defining identifiers

You can use this option to enter additional descriptions for the recipe and formula names. Identifiers have the following features:

¡        You determine the data type of an identifier with the identification category. Identification categories NAM (name) or NUM (number) can be used.

¡        By defining your own identification types, you group similar identifiers within an identification category. For example, the standard system contains the identification types recipe name, formula name, number, and product name (see Prerequisites).

¡        If you want to define several identifiers of the same category and type, you can use sort numbers to specify their sequence or priority.

¡        You can create identifiers of category NAM (name) in different languages by assigning the relevant language key to an entry. Identifiers of category NUM (number) are language-independent.

You can use identifiers to select recipes and formulas in a search. The identification listings defined in your system settings are taken into account (see Prerequisites).

·        Defining a long text for an identifier

You can create a detailed long text for any identifier. Note that the language you defined for the identifier also applies to the long text.

You can use the SAPscript editor with its formatting options for text processing. The identifier is displayed as the first line of the long text.

If required you can include centrally managed standard texts in the long text. You have the following options:

·         You insert the text as a reference or include. When you print the text or display the print preview, you obtain the most recent text version.

·         You delete the reference when you insert the standard text, which means you copy it and adjust it to the recipe or formula.

·        Editing language-dependent texts for identifiers

If the recipe has the status In Process, you can edit the texts in any language or without a language key. In all other statuses, you cannot edit the texts in the reference language or enter them without a language key. You cannot change the reference language key and the texts that belong to it afterwards.

Activities

·        You create a remark about the formula on the  Header tab page.

·        You enter identifiers in the  Identifiers tab page for the recipe and the formula.

·        To edit a long text for an identifier, you select the identifier on the Identifiers tab page, and choose  with the quick info Long Text in the toolbar.

You can then choose Insert ® Text ® Standard to insert a standard text in the long text.

See also: SAP Library Basis Components ® Basis-Services / Communication Interfaces ® SAPscript ® Word Processing in the SAPscript Editor.