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Function documentation Prerequisites for InfoObject-Specific Quantity Conversion  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

In principle, every characteristic that contains at least one unit as an attribute can be used for quantity conversion.

Prerequisites

You have made the following settings in characteristic maintenance on the Business Explorer tab page.

Specify a Basic Unit of Measure

The conversion of units always takes place based on the base unit of measure (as with material management conversion, table MARM R/3).

Create a Unit of Measure for the Characteristic

When creating a unit of measure for the characteristic, the system creates a DataStore object for units of measure.

You can specify the name of the quantity DataStore object, the description, and the InfoArea into which you want to add the object. The system proposes the name: UOM<Name of InfoObject to which the quantity DataStore Object is being added>.

With objects of this type, the system generates an SID column in the database table for each characteristic and stores the characteristic attributes in the form of SIDs.

The SID columns are automatically filled in the transformation and may not be changed in the end routine.

Assignments of quantity DataStore objects to characteristics are 1:1. This means that only one characteristic can be assigned to a quantity DataStore object and one quantity DataStore object can be assigned to a characteristic.

Note

You cannot enhance or change a quantity DataStore object in DataStore object maintenance because the object is generated by the system. You can only display it.

You can fill the quantity DataStore object with data only by using a data transfer process with transformation; update rules are not supported in this case.

If a characteristic that has a quantity DataStore object assigned to it is changed at a later time or date, (for example, changes to compounding or to the base unit of measure), you have to delete the quantity DataStore object and regenerate it. In practice, this does not occur after the data model has been finalized.

Structure or quantity DataStore objects:

Key

<Characteristic>

Key

<Compounding for characteristic, where applicable>

Key

<Unit of measure that you can convert into>

 

<Base unit of measure>

 

<Conversion factor: Counter>

 

<Conversion factor: Denominator>

 

<SID_Characteristic>

 

<SID_Compounding for characteristic, where applicable>

 

<SID_Unit of measure that you can convert into>

 

<SID_Base unit of measure>

 

 

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