Role (Characteristic Role and Key Figure
Role) 
Definition
The semantics of characteristics or key figures on which consolidation functions are based.
The characteristics and key figures used in consolidation each have particular role. For example, one characteristic in consolidation has the role financial statement item.
For the sake of simplicity, the following sections often refer to a “characteristic with the role financial statement item” simply as a “financial statement item”. (The same applies to other roles, such as the consolidation unit or breakdown category.)
Structure
On the Data Model tab page, you assign exactly one role to each and every characteristic and key figure that is used in the data basis. Since these assignments are data basis specific, you can assign different roles to the same characteristics and key figures when editing a different data basis. Thus, the relationship between a characteristic or key figure and its role is not unique for the entire system.
The characteristic company has the role consolidation unit in data basis DATA_BASIS_1. At the same time, the same characteristic has the role partner unit in data basis DATA_BASIS_2.
The role version can not be assigned to dependent characteristics, which are compounded with independent characteristics.
The following roles are available for characteristics and key figures in consolidation totals records:
Role |
Number of Fields with this Role in the Data Basis |
Value is never initialized (the characteristic always has a value in the transaction data) |
Explanation |
Version |
between 1 and n |
X |
|
Group Currency Key |
1 |
X |
You can insert the group currency key as a variable into the data model. |
Local Currency Key |
1 |
X |
Even if the data is reported in group currency, the local currency key needs to be in the data basis (for example, as an unused characteristic in the data model of the data basis). |
Currency-Bearing Consolidation Unit |
1 |
X |
|
Consolidation Unit |
1 or 2 |
X |
|
Consolidation Group |
1 or 2 |
|
|
Financial Statement Item |
1 |
X |
|
Subassignment |
between 0 and n |
|
|
Partner Unit |
1 or 2 |
|
|
Upper Unit |
0, 1, or 2 |
|
|
Investee Unit |
0, 1, or 2 |
|
|
Transaction Type |
0 or 1 |
|
|
Acquisition Year/Period |
0 or 1 |
|
|
Transaction Currency Key |
0 or 1 |
X |
|
Unit of Measure |
0 or 1 |
|
|
Document Type |
1 |
|
|
Posting Level |
1 |
|
|
Translation Indicator |
0 or 1 |
|
|
Clearing
Characteristic |
between 0 and n |
|
Allocations require the characteristic with the role clearing characteristic. It contains either the sender object or the receiver object. Each clearing characteristic needs a corresponding characteristic that is cleared. |
Fiscal Year |
1 |
X |
|
Period |
1 |
(X) |
|
Value in Group Currency
|
1 |
|
|
Value in Local Currency |
0 or 1 |
|
|
Value in Transaction Currency |
0 or 1 |
|
|
Quantity |
0 or 1 |
|
|
Fixed in Consolidation Area |
between 1 and n |
X |
You must assign at least the characteristic fiscal year variant to this role. Then you must define a fixed value in the consolidation area for each characteristic that uses this role. |
Product Group |
0 or 1 |
|
Required for Elimination of IU Profit/Loss in Transferred Inventory |
Field Type, Transaction Type |
0 or 1 |
|
Higher-level characteristic of the transaction type (if this is compounded) |