Entering Characteristics and Characteristic Values (SAP Library

Entering Characteristics and Characteristic Values

Characteristics

You enter the language-independent name of the characteristic. No distinction is made between upper and lower case letters in characteristic names.

The following restrictions apply when using characteristics in dependencies:

· No characteristics with data types TIME, DATE, or CURR (currency)

· No characteristics with a user-defined data type, because dependencies can only read single characteristics.

Character Values

Character (alphanumeric) values are in single quote marks:

COLOR = ‘RED’

The use of upper and lower case letters in character strings in quote marks depends on the settings made in characteristics maintenance.

- If the characteristic values are not case sensitive, the values are automatically converted to upper case letters:

color = ‘red’ is converted internally to COLOR = ‘RED’

- If a characteristic value is case sensitive, you must use upper and lower case letters as maintained in the characteristic.

Numeric Values

Numeric values are not in single quote marks:

Width = 15

You do not enter the unit.

In figures with decimal places, you always use a period as a decimal point, never a comma:

Width = 2.34

Plus or minus signs go immediately before the value.

-100

A valid exponent is introduced by the character E (case is not relevant), and contains a plus or minus sign (+ or -) and a string of no more than two figures. An exponent cannot contain blank characters. The exponent itself must immediately follow the figure before it (without a blank character in between):

314E-2
0.314E+01

Caution

The system checks alphanumeric values to see if they exist in the characteristic.

There is no check for numeric values.