Structure Indicator (SAP Library - Customer Service (CS))

Structure Indicator

Definition

Before you can create functional locations and reference functional locations in the system, you must define the structure you want to use for them. You do this with the help of structure indicators.

You define the structure indicator in Customizing for Plant Maintenance under Create structure indicator for ref.funct.locs/funct.locs.

Use

Using structure indicators, you can:

Specify and monitor the generic structure of the functional location label
Portray the hierarchy levels within the functional location structure in the functional location label
Make use of the system's automatic functions for generating the structure when you create functional locations

The generic structure of the location label enables the system to determine a superior functional location and to copy specific data from it into the new functional location. However, this is only possible if the functional locations have been created strictly according to the top-down principle, in other words starting with the uppermost functional location.

After you have created a functional location, the system no longer determines the location hierarchy of this particular location from its label, but from the entries in the SupFunctLoc. fields of the individual master records.

The following shows an example of a structure indicator and the resulting structure of a functional location label:

Structure element

Structure of structure indicator and location
label

Location text

Structure indicator

CLARF

Text for the structure indicator

Clarification plant structure

Edit mask

XX-XNN-NX/X

Hierarchy levels

1 2 3 45 6

Functional location label according to structure indicator

C1

Clarification plant

C1-B

Biological purification

C1-B02

Filter station

C1-B02-2

Filter cell

C1-B02-2A

Inlet

C1-B02-2A/1

Valve 1

Structure element	Structure of structure indicator and location label	Location text
Structure indicator	CLARF
Text for the structure indicator		Clarification plant structure
Edit mask	XX-XNN-NX/X
Hierarchy levels	1 2 3 45 6
Functional location label according to structure indicator	C1	Clarification plant
	C1-B	Biological purification
	C1-B02	Filter station
	C1-B02-2	Filter cell
	C1-B02-2A	Inlet
	C1-B02-2A/1	Valve 1