Creating Key Figures 

1. Select Info library ® Key figure ® Create.

The initial screen for creating a key figure appears.

2. Either you choose the number of the key figure yourself (external number assignment) or you have the system assign it for you (internal number assignment).

The number range 00000001 - 00099999 is available for internal number assignment.

If you use external number assignment, you can specify any alphanumeric, 8-character number that does not lie within the internal number range.



Please note that the number range 90000000 - 99999999 is reserved for key figures supplied with the standard SAP R/3 System. If you use a number from within this range, there is a risk that the key figure will be overwritten when the system is upgraded to another release or maintenance level.

If you want the number to be assigned internally, do not enter anything in the Key figure field.

If you want to assign the number externally, enter the desired number in the Key figure field.

3. Press Enter .

This takes you to a three-part screen on which you enter technical information on the key figure.

In the header, you make entries that relate to the description of the key figure.
Specifications in the LIS reference box are only necessary if the key figure is contained in the Logistics Information System (LIS).
What you enter in the Execution box depends on how the key figure is called up (transaction, program, report, or table).

4. Enter a description of the key figure that you want to integrate into LIL in the Description field.

Your description can be up to 60 characters long.



Since key figures are selected by means of their descriptions, you should always choose a description that says something meaningful about the key figure.

5. In the Application field, enter the LIS-specific application key of the application to which the key figure is assigned. You can find out which keys are available by calling up the list of possible entries for this field.
6. If the new key figure is not part of the Logistics Information System, do not make any entries in the LIS reference box.

If the key figure that you want to integrate is part of LIS, proceed as follows:

1. Enter the name of the Data Dictionary structure (database structure) that was generated for the information structure in the Table field. The table name is used to identify the key figure in the database.
2. In the Field name field, enter the field name which the key figure has in the generated Data Dictionary structure (database structure).
7. The way in which the system calls up the key figure depends on what you enter in the Execution box. The following are possible:

– You call up the key figure using a program or report.
Select Program and enter the name of the program in the Program name field.

– You call up the key figures using a transaction.
Select Transaction and enter the appropriate transaction code in the Transaction code field.

8. Save your entries with Key figure ® Save.

In order to be able to find the newly integrated key figure using the retrieval option "Classification" Searching and Retrieving Key Figures) you must assign it classifying attributes.

This is what you do:

1. Select Edit ® Classify from the maintenance screen for technical information.
   A dialog box appears listing all possible classifying attributes.
2. Select the desired classifying attributes.

You can select as many attributes as you like.

3. Save your choices with Copy.
   You return to the maintenance screen.