Value Assignment (SAP Library - Specification Management)

Value Assignment

Use

You use this function to enter structured specification data and information. You enter value assignment via the property tree. The tree gives you a clear, multilevel arrangement of the individual subject areas. Within value assignment you can enter a source, any comments, and an assessment for a data record, that is for a value assignment instance.

Usage is a special feature that specifies a level (or rating) at which a value assignment instance may be accessible. It also specifies which validity area the value assignment instance has (see Report Selection).

The value assignment depends on the following objects:

The value assignment category generally specifies the data type. You can use the following categories:

Value assignment category Property

Value assignment category Composition

Value assignment category Listing

Note

Other value assignment categories exist for the component Dangerous Goods Management. These include the value assignment categories Transport classification, Dangerous goods additional data, and Hazard-inducing substances.

You can assign value assignment types to each value assignment category in Customizing for Product Safety in the IMG activity Specify Value Assignment Types. You assign a class of class type 100 (value assignment) to each value assignment type. You edit the class in the SAP component Classification System (see Example: Value Assignment Types).

You can create characteristics for each class that are passed on to the corresponding value assignment type. After you have included the value assignment type in the property tree in the IMG activity Set Up Property Trees and have carried out the Match up value assignment type - characteristics function in master data matchup, you can call the value assignment type in SAP Product Safety and enter actual values for the characteristics (see Value Assignment Types and Characteristics Setup).

Integration

You can use all the data in the value assignment in reports. You use the Usage function to ensure that only the characteristic values that are permitted for the report recipient are output.

Prerequisites

You have set up a property tree in Customizing for Product Safety (see Prerequisites under Using the Property Tree).

So that you can use phrases for characteristic value assignment, you must have entered or imported phrases in phrase management (see Phrase Editing).

You can only view and edit value assignment types for which you have appropriate authorization.

Features

The individual value assignment types are listed in the property tree in the SAP Product Safety component. For each value assignment type, you can enter any number of value assignment instances in value assignment, unless you have deactivated multiple value assignment for the value assignment type in Customizing for Product Safety in the IMG activity Specify Value Assignment Types.

All value assignment types contain the following standard functions:

Assessment

Source

User-defined texts and documents

Usage

For the value assignment types composition and listing, Product Safety also has the compositions and listings function.

Note

The value assignment types required by the Dangerous Goods Management component contain additional functions that are assigned to them via their inclusion in the value assignment categories Transport classification, Dangerous goods additional data, or Hazard-inducing substances. For more information on editing dangerous goods basic data, see the section Dangerous Goods Basic Data (in the Dangerous Goods Classification Process).

Each value assignment type contains an overview table of the existing value assignment instances. In the standard system, the system displays the source, the reference, and the user-defined text or assigned document for each value assignment instance in the table. In Customizing for Product Safety the SAP enhancement C1B40001 is available for you to use in the IMG activity Develop Enhancement for Value Assignment Information. You can use this enhancement to output more information in the overview table.

In Customizing for Product Safety in the IMG activity Specify Value Assignment Types you can also specify the following for each value assignment type:

You can specify which tab pages are displayed for a value assignment type and in which order.

You can specify whether a value assignment of the value assignment type should be set automatically to active. Here the system distinguishes between copying, creating new data, and changing data.

You can specify whether a value assignment type is to be used only internally and should not therefore be displayed in the property tree.

You can specify that the value assignment type for specifications that belong to certain specification types should be hidden in the property tree.

You can specify for a value assignment type (of the category Composition or Listing) that only specifications belonging to certain specification types can be specified as components.

You can assign a usage profile to a value assignment type, from which the rating and validity area are proposed automatically.

You can assign an identification listing to a value assignment type (of the category Composition or Listing). This then overrides the standard identification listing D_VALPOS in the component overview. This means you can specify which identifiers are displayed in the value assignment screen for the components.

You can specify a function module to branch to your own dialog box when you call a value assignment type.

Note

With the program RC1PHRID you can determine value assignments that contain invalid values or phrases. For more information, see the documentation for this program.

Activities

Editing Value Assignments