Attribute Properties 

Use

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

Features

The Properties of the Attribute dialog box is divided into tab pages, each covering different settings.

Tab Page: General

Description

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

Use Standard Text: Here you can set that the default value is always used. In this case, the standard text is the text from the characteristic that was determined in InfoObject maintenance.

Technical Name

The technical name of the attribute is displayed here.

Tab Page: Display

Value Display

Under Display As, you can determine here whether and in which format you want to present the individual attribute values of the attribute.

·        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.

If you set a display type that contains text, you can choose which text type you want to set under Text Display. 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:

§         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.

Characteristic Setting: Here you can set that the default value is always used. In this case, the default value is the hierarchy setting from the characteristic that was determined in InfoObject maintenance.

Technical Name

The technical name of the attribute is displayed here.

Activities

Select an attribute for a characteristic in the query. In the Properties screen area, the properties dialog for the attribute appears. You can also select multiple attributes and set the properties simultaneously. You can use Display/Change  to set whether the properties of the attribute can or cannot be changed. You can save your settings with  Save.