Attribute Properties 

Use

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

Features

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

Tab Page: General

Description

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

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

Technical Name

The technical name of the attribute is displayed here.

Tab Page: Display

Value Display

Under Display As, you can specify whether and in which format you want to display the individual values of the attribute.

●      No Display: The attribute display is hidden.

●      Key and Text: The attribute values are displayed with their technical key and their text.

●      Text: The attribute values are displayed with their text.

●      Key: The attribute values are displayed with their technical key.

●      Text and Key: The attribute values are displayed with their text and their technical key.

If you set a display type that contains text, you can choose under Text View which text type you want to set. 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 long 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 the display type, you can choose from the following settings:

■       No Display and Key are always displayed.

■       Key and Text, Text, Text and Key are also displayed if a text (short, medium, or long) was created for this attribute.

In the dropdown box for the text type, you can only select from texts that have been created in InfoObject maintenance for the attribute. See Tab Page: Master Data/Texts.

Use Characteristic Setting: Here you can specify that the default value is always used. In this case, the default value is the hierarchy setting for the characteristic that was specified in InfoObject maintenance.

Tab Page: Content

You can make the attribute switchable in the context of the Switch framework. To do so, enter a name in the Switch field. The attribute is thus assigned a switch in the Switch framework. For more information, see Switchable Query Components in the Framework.

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. If you enter an invalid value, a warning is displayed beside the property and a corresponding text that helps you to resolve the error is displayed in the Messages screen area. To save your settings, choose Query → Save.