Name Assignment for Standard and Customer Rules

Use

You can create your own personnel calculation rules or change existing rules to adjust them to meet individual requirements. The assignment of names for standard and customer rules describes how you should call your newly created or changed rules.

Caution Caution

If you give a rule a name that does not match the name of the standard rule, you must change the rule access point accordingly in the corresponding calculation schema.

End of the caution.

Name Assignment

Personnel calculation rules that already exist can, in principle, contain all available characters as part of their name. However, if you want to newly create rules, special characters are no longer permitted. Whether a rule name may contain a certain special character or not is only relevant if you want to create a new rule.

If you process a rule with a non-permitted special character in the name, the system shows a warning message. You do not need to change this name, however, we do recommend that, in the long term, you modify your schema names in line with the name assignment rules described here.

Permitted and Non-Permitted Special Characters

You should bear the following in mind when assigning names:

  • We recommend that you use the following characters at the start of the rule name if you newly create a rule or want to save a changed rule under a new name:

  • Round parentheses

  • The number 9

  • The letter Z

  • The special character ! You should not use % $ * + and # or any of the other special characters not listed here when you create a rule or want to save a changed rule under a new name:

  • You can create a rule with a question mark ( ? ) as part of the rule name. In any case, rules whose names contain a question mark are assigned to the SAP name range. For this reason, we recommend that you avoid using this character.

  • It is technically possible to use the special characters & - / : ; < > and = when assigning names , however, we recommend that you do not use the characters.

  • A space is only permitted at the end of the name.