Editing Usages 
Use
This procedure describes how you specify a
usage for an identifier or value assignment instance.
Prerequisites
You have authorization to edit usages. The same authorization object C_SHES_TDU is checked for the usage of identifiers and value assignment instances.
Procedure
Depending on whether you want to specify a usage for an identifier or value assignment instance, execute the following steps:
- If you want to specify a usage for an identifier, proceed as follows:
- Follow the procedure
Editing Identifiers.
Select the identifier for which you want to specify the usage and choose 
.
- If you want to specify a usage for a value assignment instance, proceed as follows:
- Follow the procedure
Editing Value Assignments.
Choose the Usage tab page.
If you have set a
usage profile for the value assignment type in Customizing for Product Safety in the IMG activity Specify Value Assignment Types or for your user in the SAP Product Safety component, the rating and validity area from it are proposed automatically. This data is not proposed for a value assignment until you have saved the value assignment.
- Enter a rating in the Rating field and confirm your entry.
The system marks with a checkmark the last entry you made and activates the fields for the validity area so you can make entries.
- If the corresponding identifier or value assignment can appear on a report, activate the usage using the Active indicator (see
Usage).
If you want to mark a change made to an identifier or value assignment as relevant, set the Relevant indicator (see
Relevancy Indicator).
For the rating, enter a validity area in the VAreaCat and Validity area fields and confirm your entries.
- You can enter several validity areas for one rating.
- If you want to explicitly exclude the selected area from the validity area, set the exclusion indicator (Excluding).
- For selected validity areas, you can use the functions from the Edit menu.
- Save your entries.
The validity area displayed on the screen is always related to the rating marked with a checkmark. Click a rating to display the validity area assigned to it.