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Generate Characteristics
You only need to process this step if you want
to use classification for order selection or summarization. Because the
reference characteristics correspond to a large extent to the master data
fields used for order selection and for the definition of summarization
hierarchies, you only need to select reference characteristics if you want to
summarize characteristics that are not available for order selection or for
the definition of summarization hierarchies.
Example:
Suppose you want to use the fields "Material
group" and "Division" as selection criteria in order selection. These are not
available in order selection (without classification). You select the fields
"Material group" and "Division" from the list of available reference
characteristics, and generate them. You can then use these fields as selection
criteria for order selection.
If you want to user classification for order
selection or order summarization, proceed as follows.
Choose the reference characteristics that you
want to use as classification characteristics, and generate the selected
characteristics. The first time the characteristics are generated, the
class SAP_KKR_CLASS (objects:
CO objects; class type: 013) is created, and the generated characteristics are
automatically assigned to this class. They can then be used for order
selection and order summarization.
When you create an order, the system classifies
it. This automatically updates a characteristic value for each generated
reference characteristic.
Requirements
Before you can use classification for orders,
an indicator must be set in the order type to allow classification for orders
of this order type.
Note
Classification is not possible for sales orders
in the SD component.
Recommendation
You can achieve
preformance improvements if you only generate the characteristics that you
want to use later in order selection and summarization. If you want to use
further reference characteristics later, you can select these characteristics
and start a revaluation run.
Actions
1. The standard
system contains a number of characteristics as characteristics to be
generated. Check whether these characteristics meet your
requirements.
2. Choose any
additional reference characteristics that you want to use.
3. Delete any
marked reference characteristics that you don't need.
4. Generate the
reference characteristics. If there are already orders for the same class in
your system, a revaluation run is necessary.
5. If you want
to execute the job in the background, release the job for the revaluation run
(System -> Services -> Jobs -> Job
overview)
Further
Notes
The characteristic "controlling area" must be
generated and must not be deleted.
The colors in the list show whether the
characteristic has already been generated. There are the following
possibilities:
- The field is marked as a characteristic to be
generated.
This status is
usually set when you have copied data from another client. You must generate
this characteristic.
- The field contains a characteristic that has
been generated and assigned to class SAP_KKR_CLASS.
For these
characteristics, characteristic values (such as the order number or the name
of the user) are updated to the order. You can use this information to select
and summarize the orders later.
- The field contains a characteristic that is
not generated.
No characteristic
values are updated to the order for these characteristics. If you want to
generate the characteristic values for these characteristics at a later time,
you must generate the characteristics. If orders are already present in the
class, a rvaluation run is scheduled which you must release as a job. A
revaluation run can also be scheduled with Edit -> Revaluation
Run.
- The field contains a generated characteristic.
A revaluation run was scheduled but has not finished.
When you generate
the characteristics, the system schedules a revaluation run as a job. You must
start this job. In the revaluation run, characteristic values for the
characteristic are updated in orders that are present in the system.
- The characteristic is deleted in the
background.
You have selected
the Delete characteristic indicator. This means that
the system scheduled a revaluation run that will cancel all values for this
characteristic. However, this job has not yet finished or you still have to
start it.
- The characteristic is generated but not
assigned to the class.
An error has
occurred. You must generate the characteristic again. Generating the
characteristic again assigns it to class SAP_KKR_CLASS.
Transports
If you have already generated the
characteristics for classification in the source client, a client copy
achieves the following:
- The reference characteristics for
classification are generated in the target client.
- Class SAP_KKR_CLASS is generated in the target
client.
If you make changes in the source client later,
the reference characteristics in the target client are marked for generation
using transport requests through the interface to the transport
system.