Configuring a Required Labeling System 

Prerequisites

If you want to work with alternative labeling systems you must first make the following settings in Customizing for Plant Maintenance (PM) under Functional Locations:

  1. Activate the function Alternative Labeling of Functional Locations.
  2. Create the required labeling system. Assign a key and a description.

If necessary, define the labeling system as unique. This means that if you want to use a particular label in this labeling system, it is first checked whether the label already exists in one of the other labeling systems. If this is the case, the label cannot be assigned.

Procedure

  1. Choose Logistics ® Plant Maintenance ® Technical Objects and then Functional Location ® Labels ® User Profile. A dialog box is displayed.
  2. Select the required labeling system in your user profile or create a new entry.
  3. If you are creating a new entry, you go to the dialog box Alternative Functional Location Label: Create User Profile.

    4. Assign a new number and a description for the new entry in the user profile.

  4. Enter one of the labeling systems that were created in Customizing.
  5. Assign a structure indicator to the labeling system and choose Continue.
  6. You return to the dialog box in which your user profile is now entered. Check that the required labeling system is selected and choose Continue.

Result

You can now create functional locations within the required labeling system. When doing this, the system automatically proposes the labeling system linked to the structure indicator.

You can change the selected labeling system at any time either by selecting another entry in your user profile or by creating a new entry.

The labeling system selected in the user profile overrides the primary labeling system (which could be a cross-client setting).