Substance Search 

Use

In the initial substance management screen, you use the drill-down reporting functions to define criteria with which substances are to be selected.

Features

The results of the search are displayed in a hit list where you can restrict or extend the search results further.

All search criteria on the initial screen are linked by AND operations. This includes searches using

Search functions

Search functions are delivered in the standard system that you can check in Customizing for Product Safety in Manage user exits. Call the documentation of the corresponding standard function module to define your own search functions. Write the new function module to correspond with the reference module and its interface.

You can use the following functions:

Search function

Finds substances

Substance with property

that have certain characteristic values for certain substance characteristic categories.

You use this function to select the required substance characteristic category in the Properties tree dialog box.

The R/3 System lists the corresponding characteristics for which you can enter the values you require.

You can set up the search to be exclusive or inclusive for non-phrase-related characteristics. To do this, call the possible entries help for the characteristic. A dialog box appears that you can use to choose the comparison type. If you then mark the exclusive field on the comparison type dialog box, then the R/3 System finds all substances that do not have the characteristic values you specified.

After confirmation you can choose a substance characteristic category once again and enter characteristic values.

Substance with header data

that fulfill the specified search criteria in the substance header This includes

  • Substance details (substance key, substance category, and so on)
  • Administrative data (name of creator, of person who last change the data, data origin, data owner, and so on)

Substance contains component

that fulfill the specified search criteria: This includes details covering reference value, substance key, component type and concentration. You can also enter the substance characteristic category containing the corresponding component.

You can choose whether the specified component

  • Exists directly as a constituent of the substance for which you are searching
  • Exists as an indirect, further component of a constituent

 

Substance with phrase valuation

to which a certain phrase was assigned as a characteristic value.

Substance uses reference substance

that have a particular reference phrase.

Activities

Searching for Substances