In this step you define the description for an equipment category and assign a reference category to this equipment category.
You use the equipment category to define the characteristics for an equipment master record.
Using the control characteristics, you can decide how many and which equipment categories you require.
The following control characteristics are available:
You must define for each equipment category whether a usage history should be written.
Field selection is defined using the equipment reference categories.
In addition to the view profile, which provides you with a user-friendly set-up of the screen templates, you can also assign additional equipment views to each equipment category, for example, other data for internal enhancements, or sales data which is only required in special cases for equipment maintenance.
However, these assignments are used solely to enable the system to be operated more easily; a deactivated view can always be reactivated again for each equipment master record. It is therefore an uncritical setting that can be canceled at any time.