Use of Sets 

Use

You can use sets and set values in other Special Purpose Ledger (FI-SL) sub-components, such as:

Features

Sets in Boolean Logic Formulas

You can use sets in Boolean Logic formulas to refer the system to values that are contained in a set. (The set name is used in a Boolean Logic formula.)

You create a basic set called CENTERS that contains cost centers 100, 200, 300, and 400. You then include the set name CENTERS in a Boolean Logic formula:

CCSS-KOSTL IN CENTERS

If you use the Boolean Logic formula as a selection criterion, the system checks set CENTERS when selecting data. If the entered data is not for cost centers 100, 200, 300, or 400 in the CENTERS set, then it is not selected for posting to the ledger for which the selection condition was defined.

For more information, see types of FI-SL statements.

Sets in Reporting

The Report Writer uses sets as the modules for report rows, columns, and for the data selected for a report. The set hierarchy corresponds to the hierarchy of row and column totals in a report.

You can use sets to create simple or complex reports.

For more information, see Sets in the Report Writer.

Sets in Allocations

You can use sets in allocations to:

The CENTERS set contains specific cost centers. If you use this set as a receiver set, the relevant data is assessed or distributed to all of the cost centers in the CENTERS set.

For more information, see rules for selection criteria and selection criteria.

Sets in Planning

You use sets in planning to determine the objects to be used for planning, and the order in which you enter planning data. When you use sets you can determine which accounts should be planned in a group of cost centers, and the order in which the accounts are planned.

For plan variant 01, you can specify that only accounts in the OHD-ACCT set that use cost centers in the CENTERS set can be used for planning. The accounts are planned in the order that they appear in the set OHD-ACCT.

For more information, see sets in planning.

Sets in Rollups

You use sets in rollups to select the data for summarization in the rollup ledger, and how this data is to be updated.

For example, you can use the set OHD-ACCT to specify that only overhead accounts are to be summarized in a rollup ledger.

For more information, see sets and rollups.

Sets in Currency Translation

You can also use sets to define currency translation methods.

You create a set that contains certain transaction types, such as acquisitions and depreciations. You then use the set to limit a currency translation method to only line items that contain the transaction types found in the set.

For more information, see currency translation.