This app lets you do the following:

Defines a custom view where you can decide what content should be enabled for a provisional specification in the Manage Provisional Specifications app.

You can use templates as a grouping for specifications. A template is a collection of compositions and properties that are relevant for the provisional specification. You can decide which compositions (standard or custom) and which property groups should be visible for the product developer or the supplier.

You can use templates based on line of business (for example coffee, milk products, cereals, and so on) or level of detail (initial template, intermediate template, final template), or any other grouping you want.

When creating a new provisional specification, a template is selected. The UI is rendered dynamically based on the settings of the chosen template. The Number of Uses field shows how many specifications use this template.

A template can only be deleted if there are no provisional specifications using it.

When a template is obsolete, it can't be selected for a new provisional specification in the Manage Provisional Specifications app. Existing provisional specifications can continue using this template.

A template can be deleted if there are no provisional specifications that use it. If a template is used in any provisional specification, you can make it Obsolete instead. Obsolete templates can't be selected when creating new provisional specifications, but a provisional specification with an obsolete template can still be displayed and edited.

If you want to delete a template, select it and click Delete.

Determines which composition tables will be visible for a provisional specification in the Manage Provisional Specifications app.

Depending on which composition type a composition has, the Manage Provisional Specifications app renders different tables and allows different value sets.

Nutrient composition is an example for QUANT_COMPOSITION, while allergen composition is an example for QUAL_COMPOSITION.

The compositions used by the templates are defined in your source system. See the following Customizing activity: Logistics - General  Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)  PLM Web User Interface  Recipe Development  Specification Management  Specification  Additional Information for Value Assignment  Specific Settings for Recipe Development  Define Settings for Specification APIs. Standard compositions are defined in the Define Compositions (Standard) view.

You can organize properties into property groups. These property groups are assigned to templates and, based on the template that is used, each property group is displayed as a separate tab in the Manage Provisional Specifications app.

To look at a list of available property groups, choose the Property Groups tab. When selecting an individual property group, the object page is displayed on the right with the assigned properties.

You can for example create a property group with the description "Chemical properties" and include the relevant properties for your company, like PH value, flammability, or toxicity.

A property group can be deleted if no templates use it. If the property group is included in any template, you can make it Obsolete instead. Obsolete property groups can't be added to templates, but a provisional specification with an obsolete property group can still be displayed and edited.

If you want to delete a property group, select it and choose Delete.

If you try to remove a property group from a template, but that property group contains any properties that are still in use by a provisional specification, the property group will not be removed but will be marked as hidden instead.

Hidden property groups are not displayed in provisional specifications using the given tempate, but are visible in the Configure Provisional Specifications app for reference. If a hidden property group is changed back to visible by an administrator, the property group becomes again visible in the provisional specification with any previously stored property data.

When a property group is obsolete, it can't be added to templates. Those templates that already use this property group aren't affected, and provisional specifications using the template with the obsolete property group can still be displayed and edited.

If you try to remove a property from a property group, but that property contains stored data in any provisional specification, the property will not be removed but will be marked as hidden instead.

Hidden properties are not displayed in provisional specifications using the given property group, but are visible in the Configure Provisional Specifications app for reference. If a hidden property is changed back to visible by an administrator, the property becomes again visible in the provisional specification with any previously stored property data.

Properties without the Multiple Values option enabled can be filled with only one value, while properties with Multiple Values can take more than one value. Multi-value properties are displayed in a table in the Manage Provisional Specifications app.

If you want to change a property from a single-value to a multi-value one, go to Edit mode and choose Multiple Values.

You have a property called "color", and you may want to allow multiple colors to be added to a provisional specification.

Properties are taken over from the source system and are just displayed here.

While editing a property, you can only maintain additional information for suppliers. All other fields are directly taken over from the source system and can't be edited here.

Property fields are characteristics that are taken over from the source system and are just displayed here.

You can see for each property field, which property it is included in.

For each property you can add arbitrary text for the suppliers.

If you enter any text in the Additional Information for Suppliers field, that will be visible in the Manage Provisional Specifications app for the users under an information button next to the respective property.

Characteristics with character format that have multiple values enabled in the source system can be marked in the Configure Provisional Specifications app for long text enablement.

If you enable long text for a property field (that is a character format characteristic in the source system with multiple values enabled), then the maximum character you can enter for the respective edit box will be 1000.

By default, the names of compositions and properties are shown with their technical IDs in parentheses. This is because names are not unique and can each be uniquely identified only by their technical ID.

If your users don't want to see the technical IDs for some reason, you can switch them off.

Properties come from your source system. However, you may want to use a different sort order for them, therefore in this column, you can reorder your property fields that appear in this column.