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To reduce the number of entries required to calculate standard values, you can predefine default values for characteristics. These values are proposed during characteristic value assignment but you can change them. If you want to carry out an automatic simulation or standard values calculation then the system accesses these values.

Default values that you define in method maintenance are method-specific. Default values that you define from within formula maintenance or in characteristic maintenance are valid generally .

Proceed as follows to maintain a default value for a characteristic:

  • If you want to maintain a default value for a characteristic from within formula maintenance, select the menu options   Environment   Characteristic   Create   or   Change on the screen Formula. You reach the initial screen for characteristic maintenance.

  • If you want to maintain a default value for a characteristic from within method maintenance, position the cursor on the corresponding line and select the menu options   Edit   Default value   on the screen   Maintain Charact. Structure. You reach the screen Overwrite Characteristic: Allowed Values.

  • If you want to maintain a default value for a characteristic within characteristic maintenance, position the cursor on the corresponding line and select   Logistics   Central functions   Classification   and then   Characteristic   Create   or   Change. You reach the initial screen for characteristic maintenance.

You should consider the following when you specify default values for a characteristic:

  • On the screen Allowed Values, you can specify one or more allowed values for a characteristic.

  • If you have specified allowed values for a characteristic, you can only enter different values for characteristics during the simulation or standard values calculation if you have set the indicator Additional values on the screen Allowed Values .

  • You can mark one of the allowed values as a default value on the screen Allowed values by setting the indicator D (default) for that value.

  • If several default values are to be valid for a characteristic, then you must set the indicator Multiple Values on the screen Basic Data in characteristic maintenance .

You can find more information on characteristic maintenance in the guide Characteristics .