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  Default Component Type

Use

You can enter a default component type for each specification. This is proposed to you automatically by the system as the component type when you enter the specification as the component of a composition . This makes data entry more efficient.

Example Example

By assigning the default component type SOLVENT to the specification for a solvent that is used frequently in many compositions in your enterprise, you do not need to enter this component type every time you create a composition that contains the solvent.

End of the example.

Prerequisites

In Customizing for Basic Data and Tools under Specify Specification Types , you have defined the characteristic for the default component type for the specification types of the component.

Features

You can overwrite the proposed default component type in the composition.

If you have not entered a default component type for a component specification or if you have not defined the characteristic for the default component type in Customizing as described under “Prerequisites”, the system uses the component type you set as the default component type in Customizing for Basic Data and Tools under Specify Component Types for Compositions as the default component type.

Activities

To enter the default component type for a specification, proceed as follows:

  1. Follow the procedure Editing Specifications .

  2. In the property tree, double-click the value assignment type that contains the characteristic you specified in Customizing for the component specification type as the characteristic for the default component type.

    The Edit Specification: Value Assignment screen appears (see Editing Value Assignments ).

  3. Enter the default component type in the corresponding characteristic and save your entries.