Maintaining Basic Data

Procedure

The class name and class type on the Basic data tab page are copied from the initial screen.

1. Enter a language-dependent description for your class. The description is automatically the first keyword of the class.

2. Check the class status.

The class status determines whether objects can be assigned to the class. The status is class-type dependent. You define statuses for classes in Customizing for Classification.

The following statuses are defined for the class types in the standard system:

You can enter the following data if you require:

• Group

Here, you can assign the class to a class group. A class group is used to group together classes that are related to each other. This makes it easier to find the class you are looking for via a matchcode. You can define groups in Customizing for Classification system.

• Organizational Areas

Here, you can enter the organizational areas you want for the characteristics of the class (see Selecting Organizational Areas ).

• Local class

This indicator is used on distributed system where a part of the object classification is maintained on a central system and another part on a local system.

• Valid from/Valid to

This is where you define when the class is valid for classification. If you create a class using engineering change management, the valid-from date is copied from the change master record.

You can use the valid-to date to restrict the validity period of your class. The class is no longer valid after this date, so you cannot process the class after this date. Assignments to the class still exist after this date, but you can no longer assign any more objects to the class.

You can reactivate a class that is no longer valid. To do this, choose Create class.

• Same classification

This determines what happens if you try to assign 2 objects with identical characteristic values to the class (see Check for Same Classification ).

• Authorizations

You can enter authorization groups to restrict access to your class for changing the class, and for classifying, and finding objects.

If you try to change the class, or to use the class to classify or find objects, the system checks these values against the values stored in your user master record. If the value in the class is not in your user master record, you cannot use the class for this purpose.