Group Overview

Use

This function helps you to manage the following objects in specification management:

  • Queries

  • Sets of hits

  • Output variants

  • Inheritance templates

  • Sets of rules

Features

The objects are managed as group entries in groups. Depending on the settings in Customizing for Basic Data and Tools, groups are divided into public and private groups. Group entries in public groups are displayed to all users in the group overview. Group entries in private groups are seen only by the user that created the group entry.

The groups are also protected by authorizations. For more information, see the IMG activities Specify Groups and Specify Group Trees and Assign Groups and the documentation for the authorization object C_EHSO_GRP.

In the IMG activity Specify Groups, you specify the maximum number of objects. In public groups, this specifies the maximum number of group entries of one type that can be stored in the group. In private groups, the maximum number of objects specifies the maximum number of group entries of one type that each user can store in the group.

The following table shows a selection of the functions that are available to you in the group overview. For some functions, you first have to switch to edit mode in the group overview by choosing with the quick info text Display <-> Change or call the group overview using the relevant path, for example, for output variants using Utilities → Edit Output Variant.

Function

Description

This function has the following effects depending on the type of group entry:

Executes the query on which you have positioned the cursor

Loads the set of hits on which you have positioned the cursor

Activates the output variant on which you have positioned the cursor

Cancels editing of inheritance templates

Switches to display or edit mode for the set of rules on which you have positioned the cursor

Switches to edit mode

(output variants only)

Output

Display or editing of header data

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Detail view

Creates group entry

Color legend

New Entry (output variants only)

Deletes all selections in the value assignment types of the output variant on which you have positioned the cursor