Attributes and their values describe the state of an object.
Characteristic that is an attribute of another characteristic. You can use an attribute to specify further information about a characteristic, thus enabling a grouping of characteristic values. For example, you can have gruops of inventory items by assigning the attribute inventory item group to the characteristic inventory item.
In SAP Consolidation, the attribute country is assigned to the characterisitc consolidation unit. In addition to standard SAP attributes, customers can also define their own "custom" attributes.
Object type component: Property or characteristic of an object.
The attributes of an object are defined and implemented as part of the object type definition in the Business Object Repository. The object type Material can, for example, have the attributes Material type, Division and Purchase order.
Attributes can be used to formulate conditions in the workflow definition. At runtime, the attribute values are read or calculated, and can also be used to control the workflow.
Object type attributes can return data in the following formats:
Attribute of an entity type.
An attribute consists of a long name and the definition of the possible values for the attribute.
One or more attributes are specified as key attributes. The values of the key attributes uniquely identify an entity within an entity type.
Value indicating whether an activity is mandatory, critical and/or client-dependent, as well as the R/3 Procedure Model work package and the country to which the activity relates.
You can display attributes while in any IMG and create a view of a Project IMG based on specific attributes.
CRM Marketing
In marketing, denotes a criterion (for example age, occupation, income) used to generate customer profiles and create target groups.
Attributes are combined together to form profile templates, on the basis of which customer profiles are created.