Deactivating and Activating Inheritance Relationships (SAP Library

Deactivating and Activating Inheritance Relationships

Use

This procedure describes how you deactivate an inheritance relationship and reactivate a deactivated inheritance relationship.

After you have deactivated an inheritance relationship, the data in the target specification is no longer updated when you change the corresponding data in the source specification. In addition, you can change the data passed on (value assignments and identifiers) in the target specification. The corresponding value assignment instances and identifiers are then ready for input and are marked with the This graphic is explained in the accompanying text icon.

If you reactivate the inheritance relationship, the system updates the data in the target specification using the data in the source specification. In other words, the data changed in the target specification is overwritten by the data in the source specification, and data that has been changed in the source specification is accordingly also changed in the target specification.

Prerequisites

You have executed the procedure Editing Specifications and are on the screen for editing the header data of the specification for which you want to deactivate or reactivate an inheritance relationship.

The inheritance relationship that you want to activate or deactivate, contains an inheritance template in which the Deactiv. inheritance relationships indicator is set, in other words for which the deactivation and reactivation of the inheritance relationship is permitted.

Procedure

Choose the Relationships tab page.

In the corresponding table, select the line of the inheritance relationship that you want to deactivate or activate.

Choose

Result

An active ( This graphic is explained in the accompanying text ) inheritance relationship is deactivated ().

An inactive ( This graphic is explained in the accompanying text ) inheritance relationship is activated ().