Creating Free Characteristics and Characteristic Values 

Use

To achieve greater flexibility with regard to the selection of the limit characteristics, you can also derive free characteristics from existing limit characteristics. When you do this, limit characteristic values are grouped together to create a new free characteristic value.

Prerequisites

If you want to use free characteristics and set up values for these free characteristics, particular customer exits have to be activated in SAP enhancement management. This involves some additional steps, which are described below.

Procedure

To assign descriptions to the free characteristics, you first need to do the following:

       1.      Create a project by using transaction code CMOD.

The system displays the Project Management of SAP Enhancements screen.

Choose  to display a description of customer exits for SAP transactions. You can find a detailed description in the documentation about the Enhancement Concept.

       2.      Create a project as per the enhancement concept.

       3.      Assign enhancement LTBLX001 to the project.

       4.      Save the project by choosing  and activate it with Activate Project.

The exit is not performed unless it is activated.

       5.      Changing the description of free characteristics

                            a.      Choose Goto ®  Text Enhancements ® Keywords ® Change, and then specify one of the data elements described below, for which you wish to change the text.

In the Customizing for the definition of free characteristics and their characteristic values you can find free characteristics 01-15, to which are assigned data elements TB_RCID01 to TB_RCID15.

                            b.      The system displays the Change Key Word screen.

                            c.      Enter the required descriptions for the selected free characteristic.

                            d.      You can define multiple free characteristic texts simultaneously.

                            e.      Choose  Save to save your entries.

You can group together the characteristic values for free characteristic values by using customer exit EXIT_SAPLTBLX_001.

You can use the sample coding in INCLUDE LXTBL1F01 to help you.

       6.      Now, using the customer exit, you derive the free characteristics you defined from the characteristics provided by SAP, and activate the exit.

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                            a.      To assign the defined characteristic values to the free characteristics, do the following:

                            b.      In Customizing choose ... ® Limit Management ® Define Free Characteristics and Characteristic Values.

                            c.      The system displays the screen Display View "Selection of Characteristic IDs": Overview.

                            d.      Select a free characteristic and choose Assignment of Values.

                            e.      Choose New Entries, assign the characteristic values to the selected free characteristic and save your entries with  .

In transaction CMOD you can also display the SAP documentation about SAP enhancements. To do so, on the screen display Project Management of SAP Enhancements, choose the project and then choose Display to display the SAP enhancements. Select an enhancement and choose  Enhancements.

Result

You have now:

·        Entered descriptions for free characteristics

·        Grouped characteristic values into free characteristic values, and activated exit EXIT_SAPLTBLX_001.

·        Assigned free characteristic values to free characteristics.