Displaying Properties 

Prerequisites

You must have carried out substance drill-down reporting in the substance information system and be in the hit list.

See also: Accessing the Substance Information System

Procedure

  1. Select the substances you want to output.
  2. Choose Utilities ® Change output.

A dialog box appears.

3.

If you want to display data

Then choose

 

As a list in the R/3 System

VALUATION

 

As an Excel list

EXCEL or EXCEL-LAB

To output an EXCEL list in the standard, you must select the substance characteristic categories manually, but to output an EXCEL-LAB list, the substance characteristic categories are predefined in Customizing and are related to the identification data.

In the standard system, you can define additional data in Customizing for EXCEL output.

For further information, see the documentation for the IMG activity Specify parameters for substance information system.

 

  1. Choose Utilities ® Choose output parameter.

You use the parameter for user exit type SUB_ISOUT to control the output in the IMG activity Manage user exits.

If you have set the

FLG_ENV_VALCAT_ONLY

parameter

Then the system displays

 

To be equal to TRUE

A note that parameter entry has been disabled in Customizing.

For further information, see the documentation for the IMG activity Specify parameters for substance information system.

To be equal to FALSE, or not defined

The properties tree in a dialog box where you can select substance characteristic categories manually

Select the required substance characteristic categories.

If you have already selected substance characteristic categories on the initial screen using the Substance with property search function, these are selected automatically as default.

If you have not selected any substance characteristic categories, those specified in Customizing are selected as default.

If you use Microsoft Excel, you can select a maximum of 50 substance characteristic categories.

  1. Choose Goto ® Output.

Output VALUATION

The output VALUATION displays the property data in the R/3 System as a list. All selected substances are displayed one below the other. In the header section, the identifiers are displayed for each substance according to the column selection on the hit list.

Within the output, you can

Output EXCEL and EXCEL-LAB

The R/3 System determines the following for the substances selected:

The data are then downloaded to your PC and Excel is started:

The R/3 System lists the selected substances with three identifiers each.

Any values the R/3 System finds that correspond to the selection criteria are displayed.

In Excel, you can process the data further and store them in an Excel file. However, you cannot import the changes back into the R/3 System. Excel is a display program only for the R/3 data.