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Procedure documentationSpecifications with an Inheritance Relationship

 

You use this procedure to determine specifications that have an inheritance relationship with the specifications selected in the hit list. You can decide whether you want to determine specifications that contain the selected specifications only as direct or direct and indirect source specifications.

Example Example

Specification A passes data on to specification B. Specification B passes data on to specification C. As a result, specification A also occurs in specification C, since it passes its data on to specification B. However, in the where-used list for specification A, only specification B (and not specification C) is displayed as a target specification. This is because specification A only passes data on indirectly rather than directly to specification C. Specification A therefore is not a direct source specification of specification C.

End of the example.

Prerequisites

You have run a specification search (expert search) or loaded a set of hits and are located on the hit list screen.

Procedure

  1. In the hit list, select the specifications for which you want to determine the source specifications. If you do not select anything, the system determines the corresponding specifications for the first specification in the hit list.

  2. Choose Where-Used List (Where-Used List).

    Depending on whether you have defined one or more where-used lists for the specification category in Customizing for Basic Data and Tools under Manage User Exits, different dialog boxes will now appear:

    • If you have not defined any other where-used lists in addition to the where-used list supplied in the standard system for the specification category, the Where-Used List: Components and Reference Parameters dialog box appears immediately.

    • If you have defined other where-used lists in addition to the where-used list supplied in the standard system for the specification category, the Where-Used List: <Specification Category> dialog box appears. In this dialog box for the where-used list Component/Transp. Cl./Ref./Inher., choose Enter parameters (Enter parameters).

  3. Choose Composition and make sure that the Composition, Transport Classification, and Referenced indicators are not set.

  4. Perform the following steps if you want to determine specifications that contain certain inheritance templates:

    • Choose Multiple selection (Multiple selection).

      The Property Tree dialog box appears.

    • Select the required inheritance templates and confirm. If you do not choose a template, all available inheritance templates are taken into account.

  5. If you select the Direct Relationships Only field, when the system generates a where-used list for inheritance, it considers only those specifications that are included as direct source specifications in the selection specifications by means of inheritance relationships. If you select the Direct and Indirect Relationships field, when the system generates a where-used list for inheritance, it considers those specifications that are included as direct and indirect source specifications in the selection specifications by means of inheritance relationships.

  6. Confirm your entries.

Result

A new set of specifications appears in the form of a hit list. Choose Reset Selection (Reset Selection) to return to the original hit list. If you have defined a number of where-used lists in Customizing for Basic Data and Tools, the system takes into account in the search all where-used lists for which you have specified parameters. If you have entered parameters for a number of where-used lists, you can specify whether the where-used lists are linked with logic AND or OR in the search, that is, whether the specifications found must fulfill all or at least one of the where-used lists specified.