Symbol Type Symbol (SAP Library - Product Safety (EHS-SAF))

Symbol Type Symbol

Use

You use symbols or symbol type Symbol to insert the following data from R/3 Product Safety:

Characteristic value (symbol type Symbol, symbol group Symbol)

Graphics, phrases or codes of a phrase-related characteristic (symbol type Symbol, symbol group Phrase)

Value of a table field in R/3 Product Safety, for instance, Identifiers (symbol type Symbol, symbol group Symbol)

Features

The following expansion categories are available for the symbol type symbol:

Barcode

The system can convert symbols according to customer requirements and output them as a barcode.

Identifier

A symbol can be expanded as a specific identifier. The identifier is defined using the identification type, the identification category, and, in certain cases, the substance list allocated to the identifier.

Expansion Masks

You can define an expansion mask for numerical values and thus define, for example, the number of decimal places before and after the period.

Function Module

In addition, you can create user-defined expansion categories. In this case, you need to specify the key of a function module.

Phrases of phrase-related characteristics as well as some identification categories are language-dependent. These symbols are expanded in the language you specified when you started report generation.

If you define a repeating group of the type Validity and language area, within a document template, you can output language-dependent symbols in different languages in accordance with the validity area. In such cases, the system uses the discrete validity area - language combinations defined in the generation variant (see: Generation Variant).

Activities

You insert symbols of symbol type Parameter in the same way as symbols of symbol type Symbol.

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