Question regarding additional characteristics values selection for specific class during change material scenario...

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

    Question regarding additional characteristics values selection for specific class during change material scenario.

1. The requirement is, if required user can add new characteristic value/values against of class during change material. When I am talking about new characteristic value i.e, not present in field F4. It will be custom value. Now the question is...

Is this technically possible in MDG? If yes, please explain the way to do it.

2. So far in our present Business scenario, Long description (which is a combination of characteristic of a class) can be editable during change scenario. Now the question is...

While user add new characteristic value/values, how it will impact to the long description?

Last but not the least, can we add new characteristic value/values during material creation? If yes, please explain the way to do it.

Thanks!

[shivananddeshmu]

Hi, Check of Characteristic values in MDG UI depends on how they are defined in Backend ERP. You can check the property of characteristic (mandatory, check table, additional values allowed etc.) in transaction CT04. If additional values are allowed, then in MDG UI you can enter additional values apart from F4 help values. If additional values are not allowed, then you might get an inconsistent status or error while trying to do so in MDG UI. Best Regards, Shiva

[Former Member]

Hi Shiva,

   I checked, it will allow additional values. But my question is, how we can technically achieve it along with the long description?

Regards,

Victor

[Tony03]

The free text values will not be added to the allowed values list (f4 help). How you want to generate description depends on your requirement. If you want abbreviations to be maintained before the description generation logic is run, obviously that  has to be maintained (may be another workflow? or manually).