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 Property Tree

Use

The property tree offers a structured display of all the value assignment types that you can edit in the value assignment of specifications.

Prerequisites

  • You have set up or imported a property tree. For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Basic Data and Tools under Set Up Property Trees or in SAP Library under Import and Export .

  • You have the required authorizations.

    Note Note

    In the SAP system, you can assign read and write authorization to a user for each node (including the root). A user can display an end node if that user has authorization for all nodes, including end nodes and the root.

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Features

The property tree is the starting point for editing value assignments of specifications. You can set which property tree is displayed for each specification type in Customizing for Basic Data and Tools under Specify Specification Types .

In the IMG activity Specify Specification Types you can define for each specification type whether a user can switch between property trees. In this IMG activity you also specify the property trees from which the user can choose.

In the IMG activity Specify Specification Types you can define a default property tree for each specification type.

Note Note

If you manually change to the property tree in the dialog box, the property tree that you last used is saved in user parameter ES6.

If the user parameter is set, it has a higher priority than the settings in Customizing. You can use this to specify your own default property tree.

To define the property tree settings individually, we recommend that you use BAdI EHSS_PROP_TREE. For example, you can use this enhancement to set parameter ES6 as the default for the property tree.

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Report Symbols

Using the context menu you can display the report symbols for a value assignment type and its characteristics.

Origin of Value Assignment

Value assignment types can be assigned values using various methods. The method used is indicated by a particular icon beside the value assignment in the property tree.

Origin of Value Assignment

Icon

Manual assignment

Reference

An identifier for the reference specification is displayed next to the text of the value assignment type. You specify which identifier is displayed in Customizing for Basic Data and Tools under Check Identification Listing in the identification listing D_REFVAL.

By manually overwriting a reference

An identifier for the reference specification is displayed next to the text of the value assignment type. You specify which identifier is displayed in Customizing for Basic Data and Tools under Check Identification Listing in the identification listing D_REFVAL.

Inheritance

See Inheritance .

Help Texts for Value Assignment Types

You can use the context menu to display help texts for each value assignment type in the property tree. This text was created in the Classification System for the class of the value assignment type under Texts .

Activities

Follow the procedure Editing Specifications . You will find the property tree in the detail area of the specification workbench.

Using the Property Tree for Value Assignment

  1. Expand the property tree down to the level where the value assignment types are displayed.

  2. Double-click the value assignment type you want to display.

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

Changing Property Tree

In the context menu of the property tree, choose the required property tree under Property Tree, or choose with the quick info text Switch Property Tree .

Refresh Property Tree

You can refresh the property tree by choosing the symbol with the quick info text Refresh Property Tree . For performance reasons, the property tree is not updated automatically.

Change to the Header Data

You can change to the specification header by choosing the symbol with the quick info text Header Data .