This function helps you to manage the following objects in specification management:

• Queries
• Sets of hits
• Output variants
• Inheritance templates
• Sets of rules

The objects are managed as group entries in groups. Depending on the settings in Customizing for Product Safety, groups are divided into public and private groups. Group entries in public groups are displayed to all users in the group overview. Group entries in private groups are only seen by the user that created the group entry.

The groups are also protected by authorizations. For more information, see the documentation on the IMG activities Specify Groups and Specify Group Trees and Assign Groups and in the documentation for the authorization object C_EHSO_GRP.

In the IMG activity Specify Groups you specify the maximum number of objects. In public groups this specifies the maximum number of group entries of one type that can be stored in the group. In private groups the maximum number of objects specifies the maximum number of group entries of one type that each user can store in the group.

The following table shows a selection of the functions that you have available to you in the group overview. For some functions, you must first switch to edit mode in the group overview using (or call the group overview for the output variants using the function).