In report management and the report information system, you can use default parameters to fill symbols of symbol type Parameter with valid values for displaying and printing reports so that the user must not enter values manually.

You have made the following settings in Customizing for Product Safety.

• In the IMG activity Define report symbol groups, you have defined the substance report symbol groups for the determination of default parameters and allocated the required function modules.
• In the IMG activity Check and define report symbols, you have allocated the required substance report symbol groups to the substance report symbols.
• In the IMG activity Check identification listing, you have checked the identification listing D_MATNAM according to your requirements.

For the user exit, function modules are delivered with the standard system that determine the appropriate values for an initiator (sales organization) or material number. You must distinguish between the following parameter symbols:

• Parameter symbols that depend on an initiator
• Parameter symbols that are linked to a material

• If the material is available in the R/3 System, the first 132 characters of the basic data long text are output in the logon language.
• If no basic data long text is available, the material short text is output in the logon language.
• If no material short text is available, the system outputs the identifier that it has determined in accordance with the list of identifiers D_MATNAM.
• If no corresponding identifier is available, the substance key is output as the default value.

In report management, you can overwrite the default parameters manually. In the report information system, overwriting is forbidden as standard. However, you can set up this option with the appropriate authorization.

The changed values are not stored. They are only used for the current transaction.