Usage Profile (SAP Library - Specification Management)

Usage Profile

Use

In usage profiles you can specify frequently used combinations of ratings and validity areas. The system proposes ratings and validity areas automatically under the conditions described in the Features section when you edit the value assignments and header data ( identifiers, restrictions, and specification status) of a specification.

Prerequisites

You have defined the required usage profiles in Customizing for Product Safety in the IMG activity Specify Usage Profiles.

Features

For the ratings and validity areas to be proposed automatically from a usage profile when you edit the header data and value assignments of a specification, you must specify the required usage profile in at least one of the following places:

You set it as a user-specific usage profile.
You specify it in Customizing for Product Safety in the IMG activity Specify Value Assignment Types. There you can specify it individually for each value assignment type. In this IMG activity you can also specify usage profiles for the specification status, the identifiers, and the restrictions to the header data.

For each entry in the IMG activity Specify Value Assignment Types you specify whether the usage profile from the IMG activity Specify Value Assignment Types or the user-specific usage profile has priority.

Activities

Proceed as follows to specify a user-specific usage profile:

From the screens for editing the header data of a specification or from the hit list, choose Utilities ® Settings ® Usage profile.
Enter the usage profile and confirm your entry.