Symbol Type Symbol (SAP Library - EH&S Product Safety)

Symbol Type Symbol

Use

You use symbols of symbol type Symbol to insert the following data from the SAP Product Safety component:

Value of a characteristic (symbol type Symbol, symbol group Symbol)

Graphic, phrase, or code of a phrase-related characteristic (symbol type Symbol, symbol group Phrase)

Note

For a characteristic you can output the user-defined texts of a user-defined text type you specify using the environment parameter PHRASE_SEE_FREETEXT. For more information, see the IMG activity Specify Environment Parameters.

Value of a table field of the SAP Product Safety component (symbol type Symbol, symbol group Symbol)

Note

You can output on reports documents from the document management system (DMS) using user-defined text types that have been set up accordingly (see also User-Defined Texts and Documents).

To output these DMS documents on the report, you must:

Insert the symbol for the start of a user-defined text in the report template (GESTDHEADE)

If the Document indicator is set for the relevant user-defined text type in Customizing for Product Safety in the IMG activity Specify User-Defined Text Types, the DMS document will be output on the report. If the indicator is not set, the short or long text of the user-defined text will be output.

Make adjustments in the [DocumentTypes] section of the WWI.INI file according to the IMG activity Adapt WWI.INI

If more than one DMS document is specified for a user-defined text type, they can be output if you nest a discrete repeating group around the user-defined text symbol, and then nest a user-defined text repeating group around the discrete repeating group.

Features

The following expansion types are available for the symbols of symbol type Symbol:

Bar code

The system can convert symbols according to customer requirements and print them as a bar code.

Identifier

A symbol can be expanded as a specific identifier. The identifier is defined using the identification category, the identification type, and, in certain cases, the regulatory list assigned to the identifier.

Alternatively, a selection strategy can also be predefined by specifying an identifier listing.

Expansion mask

You can define an expansion mask for numerical values and thus define, for example, the number of decimal places before and after the period.

Function module

In addition, you can create user-defined expansion types. In this case, you need to specify the name of a function module.

Note

Phrases of phrase-related characteristics as well as some identification types are language-dependent. These symbols are expanded in the language you specified when you started report generation.

If you define a repeating group of the type Validity and language area, you can display language-dependent symbols within a document template in different languages in accordance with the validity area. In such cases, the system uses the discrete validity area-language combinations defined in the generation variant (see Generation Variant).

See section B in Example: Layout of an Abridged Material Safety Data Sheet

Activities

You insert symbols of symbol type Symbol in the same way as symbols of symbol type Parameter.

See also:

WWI: Inserting Symbols

Selecting Methods for Entering Data