Assigning Values to Characteristics (SAP Library - Integrated Product and Process Engineering (iPPE))

Assigning Values to Characteristics

Use

There are important qualitative and quantitative differences between the structure nodes and component variants of a product structure. You can classify these iPPE objects and assign values to their characteristics. Classification gives you a systematic way of accessing iPPE objects according to their properties.

Prerequisites

Customizing for Classification

Activity Maintain Object Types and Class Types

Before you can classify iPPE nodes, class type 053 (iPPE Nodes) must be completely maintained.
With reference to this class type, in classification function you define classes whose characteristic values classify the iPPE nodes.
Before you can classify iPPE variants, class type 056 (iPPE Variants) must be completely maintained.
With reference to this class type, in classification function you define classes whose characteristic values classify the iPPE variants.

iPPE Workbench

You have classified the iPPE object whose characteristic values you want to assign on the Web user interface, in the iPPE workbench.
The class type is preset on the Classification tab page. To select classes, choose Classification. The characteristics of all assigned classes are listed in the iPPE workbench, on the Classification tab page.

Web User Interface of the Product Designer

You are displaying the object-specific page of an iPPE object.

See Displaying Engineering Data

Procedure

Choose the Data Sheet view.

Below the header data, the administrative data is displayed.

Then come the characteristics of all classes that have been assigned to the iPPE object in the iPPE workbench.

Enter or change one or more characteristic values.

How you enter values depends on the definition of the characteristic. For example, you can select a value from the possible entries, or enter any character string you want.

You can enter several values for a multiple-value characteristic, separating them with a semicolon.

Choose Save. The changed data is saved to R/3.

Result

After saving, you see information on the change you made to the classification, above the header data.