About Operators

Note: You can use the Operators components in a price plan, in a pricing macro, in a charging plan, or in a refill plan (refill logic). But you cannot use:

The components Counter Operator and Macro Operator in a charging plan
The component State Schedule Operator in a price plan, a pricing macro, and in a charging plan

An operator component can do the following in the rating context:

Modify counter values
Create new properties resulting from calculation

There are several types of operator component. For example, the Duration Operator component calculates the duration between two dates while the Counter component can update counters that are defined in the price plan, the charging plan, or the refill logic.

Operator components

The following operator components are available with SAP Convergent Charging®:

Icon	Name	Action/Usage
	Alert Triggering	Configures an alert which is triggered if the branch containing the component is activated. When an alert is triggered, it is then published by a dedicated system only if the process (rating, refilling, and so on) is successful.
	Arithmetic Computation	Carries out an arithmetical operation between two numerical values or numerical properties. The calculation result is saved in a new property.
	Concatenate	Concatenates two or more string properties or character strings.
	Counter	Updates a counter.
	Date Shift	Calculates a new date by adding a period of time to an existing date property or by subtracting a period of time from an existing date property.
	Duration	Calculates the period of time between two dates. The period of time is expressed in seconds, minutes, hours, or days and saved in a new numerical property.
	Duration Adapter	Converts a period of time into another time unit. The calculation result is saved in a new numerical property. You can convert into days a numerical property expressed in seconds or in hours.
	Filter Operator	Compares each value of a multi-valued property of string type with one or more string values. Each time the result of a comparison is true, the value of the multi-valued property is stored in a specified multi-valued property associated with the comparison. Each time the result of a comparison is false, the value of the multi-valued property is rejected and stored in a specified multi-valued property.
	Macro Operator	Allows you to use an existing pricing macro in a plan.
	Multi-valued Evaluator Operator	Counts the number of values which are in a multi-valued property. If the multi-valued property is of numerical type, the Multi-valued Evaluator Operator calculates the sum and the average of all the numerical values which are in the multi-valued property and determines the smallest and the greatest of these numerical values.
	Output Property Update	Modidies the generated properties of a pricing macro.
	Property Introducer	Creates new properties for a plan.
	Property Type Convertor	Creates a new property from an existing property by modifying the type of the existing property.
	Prorata	Calculates the product Y = X * R, in which: - Y is the numerical result - X is a numerical value - R is a ratio ranging from 0 to 1
	State Schedule Updater	Changes the dates on which a prepaid account is blocked, locked, or closed.
	Switch Table	Compares the same property with one or more values or properties of the same type. When a comparison is true, the test stops and a numerical or string value is assigned to a computed property. If no comparison is true, a default value is assigned to the computed property.
	Table Operator	Allows you to use an existing translation table in a plan.
	Tier Table Operator	Allows you to use an existing tier table in a plan.