Attribute Properties 

Use

You can set display functions in the Attribute Properties dialog box for a specific attribute for a characteristic.

Features

Description

The name of the attribute appears automatically here. You can overwrite this text. The new text is different to the text provided in the InfoObject maintenance and is used in the query display.

Display As

You can determine here whether and in which format you want to present the individual attribute values of the attribute.

·        (Standard): The standard display type for attribute values corresponds to the setting in InfoObject maintenance under Tab Page: Business Explorer.

·        No Display: The attribute display is hidden.

·        Key and Text: The attribute values are shown by their technical key and by their text.

·        Text: The attribute values are shown by their text.

·        Key: The attribute values are shown by their technical key.

·        Text and Key: The attribute values are shown by their text and by their technical key.

Once you have made a setting in display type that contains text, you can select which text type you want to set in the dropdown box below. The following options are available:

·        Standard: The shortest available text for the attribute values is used as the text.

·        Short text: The short text for the attribute values is used as the text.

·        Long text: The longest text for the attribute values is used as the text.

·        Medium Text: The medium text for the attribute values is used as the text.

In the dropdown box for display type, the system offers the setting options as follows:

§         (Standard), No Display and Key are always offered.

§         Key and Text, Text, Text and Key are offered additionally if any text (short, medium or long) was created for this attribute.

In the text type dropdown box, the system offers only those texts for selection that were created for this attribute in the InfoObject maintenance. See Tab Page: Master Data/Texts.

Technical name

The technical name of the attribute is displayed here.

Activities

Select an attribute for a characteristic and choose Properties from the context menu (secondary mouse click). You get to the Attribute  Properties dialog box.