Maintaining Assignment Details

Prerequisites

You have created a sender-receiver assignment.

Context

The maintenance of assignment details is an expert function. Before BW 3.0A, a BAdI or user exit was available for this type of assignment. This is now obsolete and only exists for reasons of compatibility.

Recommendation

In general, you should be able to use the RRI to create the sender-receiver assignment, without having to specify any other assignment details.

In certain cases, however, it may be necessary to maintain these assignment details, such as

If you do not want to transfer certain selections, for example differing date information
If an assignment is not clear, for example, if the vendor needs to be assigned to the purchaser.

Caution
The system does not check the assignment details you maintained to make sure they make sense.

Procedure

Select your sender-receiver assignment in the Receiver table.
Choose . The Field Assignments dialog box appears.

If you want to make changes to the individual fields, choose the required settings using input help. You can assign the processing method ( type) of selections for characteristics and the permitted Selection Type, as well as designate the field as Required Entry Field.

You can choose between the following input options:

Processing Method ( Type)	Effects
Generic (default)	Selections are automatically transferred from the Report-Report Interface to the jump target. We recommend that you first execute the jump with this setting and that you only make other settings when the jump does not display the required result. Only then is the full functionality of the RRI available. Here is a description of the rules used to transfer the selections: Process when Calling the RRI
V Variable	Selections are transferred directly to the specified variables. In the Field Name column, you have to enter the technical name of the variables. The Data Element, Domain and Parameter ID columns are automatically filled from the properties of the variables. This processing method is only applicable for BEx Queries. This is recommended if you want to fill a variable in the receiver query and that variable has no technical connection to the InfoObject of the sender query.
I InfoObject	Selections are transferred directly to the specified characteristic. In the Field Name column, you have to enter the technical name of the characteristic. The Data Element, Domain and Parameter ID columns are automatically filled from the properties of the characteristic. This processing method is only applicable for BEx Queries. It is useful when an assignment is not unique and a specific characteristic is to be transferred explicitly. The characteristics assigned to one another have to have the same (non-compounded) key. For example, the characteristics 0MATERIAL and 0MATPLANT can be assigned to one another.
3 Table field	Selections are transferred directly to the specified field. This setting is only useful for non-BW jump targets. The setting is designed to enable jumps into other applications and fills the selection fields of programs or transactions. The Field Name, Data Element, and Domain columns have to be filled correctly. It also makes sense to fill the column Parameter ID with the correct parameter ID. You can usually find the parameter ID in the ABAP dictionary entry for the data element. See also Creating a Transaction As a Receiver.
P URL parameters	This setting is only useful for the Web Address jump target. Specification of a field name is then mandatory. See also Creating a Web Address As a Receiver.
Delete X	All selections for this characteristic are deleted and not transferred to the jump target. This setting is useful when you do not want to transfer certain selections. For example, you may not want selections for a characteristic to be transferred to a characteristic that has the same reference characteristic.

Note

When using these explicit rules, make sure that the assignment is already made in the sender system. If you jump to another system, note that the sending and receiving InfoObjects of the assignment must exist in the sender system. Otherwise the jump will not work.

Choosing a selection type is worthwhile when the jump target is a longer-running query or transaction. When you choose a selection type with the Required Entry indicator, during the jump you can prevent a report that was called from starting if it does not fulfill certain conditions. In this way, you avoid putting unnecessary load on the system. Before the jump, the system checks whether the selection that is marked as a required entry is present in the jump target; otherwise the jump is not executed.

Note

For example, for a jump to an ERP system in the transaction MM03, you can mark the InfoObject Characteristic with selection type P Parameter as a required entry field. The jump is only executed when the InfoObject Material is found in the ERP system.

Permitted Selection Type	Effects
* (default)	No restriction of the selection type. Single values, intervals, free selection options and hierarchy nodes can be transferred.
P Parameters	In the report-report interface, only one single value is permitted.
E Individual values	In the report-report interface, a list of values is permitted.
I Interval	In the report-report interface, only one single interval is permitted.
S Selection option	Single values, intervals and free selection options (such as >, <, <>,…) can be chosen. Hierarchy nodes are expanded in lists of single values.
H Hierarchy nodes	Only hierarchy nodes are permitted.

When the system calls up the recipient, the settings made in the Field Assignments dialog box are set. The system proposes all other field assignments generically.

Choose Close. The assignment details you defined are saved and are taken into account when the jump target is called.