Extending the Communication Structure 

Use

If you want to update key figures as self-defined value or quantity key figures in the Plant Maintenance Information System, you must define them as fields in the communication structure MCIPMCO based on the data elements you have already defined. Because you should not change the communication structure MCIPMCO as a SAP standard object, you must define an append structure for the structure MCIPMCOUSR, which contains all self-defined key figures. You can make this definition in the data dictionary.

Procedure

  1. Choose the menu bar sequence Tools ® ABAP Workbench ® Development ® Dictionary on the SAP initial screen.

    2. This brings you to the initial screen for the Dictionary.

  2. Select Structure and enter MCIPMCOUSR.
  3. Choose the menu bar sequence Dictionary object ® Change.
  4. Choose the menu bar sequence Goto ® Append Structures on the Structure screen.

    5. A dialog box appears.

  5. Enter the name of the append. Make sure that the name of the data object begins with Z as defined in the naming convention for customer objects.
  6. Choose Continue.
  7. On the screen Table/Structure: Change fields, you can enter the description of the append and define the fields. You should ensure that the names of the fields begin with ZZ and contain no more than 10 characters. Use the active data element you have created to define field meaning and attributes.
  8. As these are either quantity or value fields, you must maintain the reference to a unit. Position the cursor on a field name and double click. Then enter the following data:
    9.

    Reference table: MCIPM

    Reference field: WAERS

    If the field has the data type CURR.

    Reference table: MCIPM

    Reference field: SUNIT

    If the field has the data type QUAN.

     

  9. Choose Copy.
  10. 1Choose the menu bar sequence Table ® Activate if you have edited all fields.