Selection of Lock Characteristics 

Use

On the Lock Characteristics tab page, you can specify which characteristics are used for the lock check. In the default settings, all the characteristics and the artificial characteristic 1KYFNM for a real-time InfoCube are relevant for the lock check.

To reduce the size of the lock table, you can exclude characteristics from the lock check that do not serve to divide lock selections. These include characteristics which are the same for all users or which have overlapping values.

If no characteristics are selected as being relevant, the whole InfoCube is locked.

Activities

Select Lock Characteristics

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       1.      To switch to change mode, choose .

       2.      Select an InfoCube. In the default settings, the Lock Characteristic Selection area of the screen is empty since all the characteristics are relevant.

       3.      Press the enter pushbutton. In the Lock Characteristics area of the screen, the system displays all the lock characteristics that are currently selected.

       4.      Remove any characteristics that are not relevant for the lock check from the Lock Characteristics area of the screen.

In cost center planning, the characteristics Fiscal Year, Version, Cost Center and Cost Element are being used. If a number of users are performing planning for the same year and the same cost elements, the characteristics Cost Center and Version are sufficient to ensure that the different users’ selections do not overlap. In this case, only choose these characteristics as lock characteristics.

Select Navigation Attributes as Lock Characteristics

In the default settings, navigation attributes are not relevant for lock checks. This means that they are always completely locked. In some cases it is useful to specify navigation attributes as lock characteristics to reduce the size of the selection tables. For example, this allows you to use selections based on a product group instead of selections based on an extensive list of products that belong to the product group. 

In expert mode, you can include navigation attributes in the list of lock characteristics. 

You use ok_code EXPERT to switch on expert mode and NOEXPERT to switch it off again.

 

Make sure that no navigation attribute values are changed during planning. Otherwise two different users may both edit the same values of the related basic characteristic and in doing so write new delta records.

User 1 plans product P1 which is in product group (navigation attribute) PG1. PG1 is selected in the selection table and there is no restriction for product. If the product group is used to set the lock, the following may occur:  User 2 plans product group PG2: User 1 starts planning first; the system locks the data. During this time, the attribute of product P1 is changed from PG1 to PG2. User 2 starts planning. Since PG2 is now technically different to PG1, there is no lock conflict. Both users can plan key figure values for product P1.