This function enables you to clearly identify a substance.

A substance identifier is defined in the following way:

• The substance identification type generally specifies the data type. The types name, number and formula are delivered in the standard system.

• The substance identification category gives a more exact description of the substance identification type.

The R/3 System enables you to output identifiers on substance reports.

In Customizing for Product Safety, you have carried out the following IMG activities:

• In the IMG activity Check identification listing in Customizing for Product Safety, you define the identifiers to be displayed on the individual program screens (on the hit list, in substance characteristic values, for example). For an identification listing, you can define

• the maximum number of identifiers to be displayed for an item
• that an identifier is only to be displayed, if a particular substance list is allocated to it

• In the IMG activity Check identification categories you can define:

• further identification types and identification categories
• the maximum length of an identifier
• a check function that checks whether the entry for an identifier is correct
• whether an identifier of type Name is language-dependent
• whether small letters are to be changed to capitals
• whether special characters are allowed
• whether an identifier of type Formula is allocated to a document

You can

• create any number of substance identifiers for a substance. Within a substance identification category, you can also define the sort sequence as required.

• enter a text of any length using the R/3 Editor for each identifier

• allocate substance lists to each identifier