Class Assignment
Use
Before you can configure an object, you need to assign the object to a class whose class type supports variant configuration. For materials and other configurable objects, this is class type 300 in the standard system, except for model service specifications, which have class type 301. When you assign the object to the class, you can use the characteristics of the class to describe the object.
Prerequisites
In Customizing for the Classification System, the Variant class type indicator must be set for the class type.
Features
Class Assignment Pushbutton
The assignment to a class is not the same as any classification. The class is just a container for the characteristics that are required for configuring the object.
If you set values, this has the effect of restricting the allowed values for configuration, rather than assigning values as in classification. You can assign several values to single-value characteristics.
The values you set are not default values. During configuration, you only see the values you set in the class assignment.
Class C_CAR has characteristics EXTRAS and COLOR. You assign configurable material CAR to class C_CAR. You restrict characteristic EXTRAS to values ‘Sports’ and ‘Luxury’, and characteristic COLOR to values ‘Red’ and ‘Black’.
When you configure the car, you only see the two values you set for both COLOR and EXTRAS, because you have restricted the allowed values in the class assignment.
To allow all values in configuration, do not set values in the class assignment.
Multiple classification
If the class type allows multiple classification, you can classify the configurable object in several variant classes. When you configure the object, you see the characteristics of all classes of a class type to which the object is assigned.
If you only assign a configurable object to an additional class later on, and configurations (such as sales orders) already exist, you can no longer delete the assignment to the additional class once you have saved it.
The sequence of classes has no influence on the sequence of characteristics on the value assignment screen.
See also:
SAP Library
® CA Cross-Application Components ® CA Classification
