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Function documentationUser-Interface Settings Specific to Product Model

 

You can link your product model knowledge base profile with fixed user interface parameters for use in the Web-based interactive configuration. This function allows you to specifically activate or deactivate certain product-model-specific user interface functions, such as conflict handling.

Prerequisites

  • You are using the Configuration Engine for interactive configuration.

  • You have created a product model.

Features

You edit parameter records in component uiname of Extended Configuration Management (XCM) and assign them to your knowledge-base profile by using the attribute UI Name. A UI name corresponds to exactly one record of configuration parameters. It overwrites the standard settings of the scenario.

You do not have to change your existing knowledge-base profile. If you do not set up a UI name for your knowledge-base profile, the default settings for the relevant scenario apply.

Three predefined parameters (UINAMEs) are available:

SIMPLE

The parameter settings of this UI name are for easy-to-configure products for which you want to use all the functions of conflict handling.

NOCONFLICTEXPL

The parameter settings of this UI name are for easy-to-configure products for which you want to use conflict resolution but not conflict explanation. This also includes product models that you model using product modeling.

COMPLEX

The parameter settings of this UI name are for complex products. Here, conflict handling is deactivated.

You can also define your own UI names. For more information about UINAME parameters, see the XCM documentation.

Activities

Entering UI Names in Product Models in Product Modeling

  1. Open a product model.

  2. Select a product.

  3. Enter the UI name in field User Interface Settings.

Entering UI Names for Product Models in SAP ERP Variant Configuration

  1. Open the knowledge base (CU33).

  2. Open the list of knowledge-base profiles (Profiles button).

  3. Select the desired profile.

  4. Open the basic data view.

  5. Enter the UI name in field UI Name.

For more information, see Creating or Changing Knowledge-Base Objects.

Result

When you call your product in the interactive configuration with the JSP UI of the Configuration Engine, the parameters that you specified are read and the interface is displayed accordingly.

More Information

Product That Is Easy to Configure

Conflict Handling