Creating Characteristic Fields in EH&S (SAP Library

Creating Characteristic Fields in EH&S

Use

The SAP Environment, Health and Safety (SAP EH&S) component uses fields that were created as a characteristic in the SAP component Classification System. The characteristics are passed on to the corresponding value assignment type via the assignment of the class to a value assignment type in EH&S Customizing. In this way, you can create other characteristics and assign them to the individual value assignment types.

You can also assign a phrase set to a characteristic that has the data type CHAR 30. This means the characteristic field can be assigned values using phrases from this phrase set.

Example

In the SAP component Product Safety the property tree is made up of different value assignment types. Every value assignment type has a class assigned to it in Customizing for Product Safety in the IMG activity Specify Value Assignment Types. The characteristics of the class are therefore also assigned to the value assignment type (see Value Assignment Types and Characteristics Setup).

In the SAP Industrial Hygiene and Safety component, the following data can be edited using value assignment types, for example:

Industrial hygiene and safety data

Additional information incident/accident log

Additional information person affected

Prerequisites

The value assignment types are assigned to the corresponding classes in Customizing for Product Safety.

The classes must be assigned to the class type 100 (value assignments) in the SAP component Classification System.

Procedure

Creating Characteristics in the Classification System and Assigning Them to a Class

Choose Logistics ® Central functions ® Classification ® Characteristic ® Create and create the characteristic. If you want to assign phrases to the characteristic, you must create the data type CHAR (character format) with the length 30 in the Create Characteristic: Basic Data screen.

For more information, see the SAP library under CA - Cross-Application Components -> Classification System.

Choose Logistics ® Central functions ® Classification ® Class ® Change. Call the required class and assign the newly created characteristic to the class.

In the corresponding SAP EH&S component, check whether the characteristic is displayed for the corresponding value assignment type:

In the SAP Product Safety component, the appropriate value assignment type must be added to a property tree in the IMG activity Set Up Property Trees. You can call the value assignment type in the property tree and check whether the newly assigned characteristic is displayed (see Value Assignment).

Call the value assignment type directly in the SAP industrial hygiene and safety data component. If, for example, you have assigned other characteristics to the class to which the value assignment type Industrial hygiene and safety data is assigned, choose the function Industrial hygiene and safety data to check for a work area in the SAP Industrial Hygiene and Safety component. The new characteristic is displayed on the Edit Work Area: Industrial Hygiene and Safety Data screen.

Note

The Classification System makes it possible for you to define dependencies between characteristics and characteristic values using object dependencies. For example, you can specify that characteristic B is only ready for input if characteristic A was assigned values, or that the value D can only be selected in characteristic B if the characteristic A was assigned the value C. For notes on characteristics you want to use in the SAP component SAP EH&S and other information, see Customizing for Product Safety in the IMG activity Set Up Characteristics and the application help for the Classification System.

Assigning Phrases to the Phrase Set

You can also assign phrase sets to characteristics that have the data type CHAR 30. For this purpose, you must create phrases and phrase sets and then assign them to each other:

In the Product Safety menu choose Phrases ® Edit phrases and create the required phrases (see Creating Phrases).

In the Product Safety menu choose Phrases ® Edit phrase sets and create the required phrase sets (see Creating Phrase Sets).

Assign the required phrases to the phrase set (see Assigning Phrases to a Phrase Set).

Alternatively you can assign a phrase set to phrases (see Assigning Phrase Sets).

Assigning the Phrase Set to the Characteristic

To update the view for the phrase set-attribute assignment for newly created characteristics, proceed as follows:

In the Product Safety menu, choose Tools ® Match up master data, set the Match up ValAss type and char. indicator and choose (see also Master Data Matchup).

Assign the phrase set to the characteristic as follows:

In the Product Safety menu choose Phrases ® Edit phrase set-attribute assignment and navigate to the required characteristic. Assign the required phrase set (see also Assigning Phrase Sets to Attributes).

Note

In Customizing for Product Safety the SAP enhancement C14X0001 is available for you to use in the IMG activity Develop Enhancement for Phrase Sets. This allows you to dynamically determine and assign phrase sets for characteristics depending on the runtime environment and the current usage.

Activating the Selection Help Display for Phrase Sets

In order for the phrase set to be displayed when the characteristics to which you have assigned a phrase set are called, you must activate the phrase-related characteristics:

In the Product Safety menu, choose Tools ® Match up master data, set the Activate phr. assgt to charac. indicator and choose (see also Master Data Matchup).