Creating InfoObjects: Characteristics  

Procedure

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       1.      In the context menu of your InfoObject catalog for characteristics, select Create InfoObject.

       2.      Enter a name and a description

       3.      Specify a reference characteristic or a template InfoObject. If you choose a template InfoObject, you copy its properties and use them for the new characteristic. You can edit the properties as required. For more information about reference characteristics, see Tab Page: Compounding in the Reference InfoObject section.

       4.      Confirm your entries.

       5.      Maintain Tab Page: General. You have to enter a description, data type and data length. The following settings and tab pages are optional.

Maintain Tab Page: Business Explorer

Maintain Tab Page: Master Data/Texts

Maintain Tab Page: Hierarchy

       6.      Maintain Tab Page: Attributes. This tab page is only available if you have set the With Master Data indicator on the Master Data/Texts tab page.

Maintain Tab Page: Compounding

       7.      Save and Activate the characteristic you have created.

Before you can use characteristics, they have to be activated.

If you choose Save, the system creates all the characteristics that have been changed and saves the table entries. However, they cannot be used for reporting in InfoProviders yet. If there is an older active version, this is retained initially.

The system only creates the relevant objects created in the data dictionary (data elements, domains, text tables, master data tables, and programs) after you have activated the characteristics. Only then do the InfoProviders use the activated, new version.

In InfoObject maintenance, you can switch between any D, M, or A versions that exist for an InfoObject at any time.