Reporting: Characteristics and Values

You can display all the characteristics that describe a configurable material. You also see information on whether an entry is required for a characteristic, whether a default value is defined for a characteristic, and whether dependencies are allocated to a characteristic.

1. Choose Environment
® Reporting ® Chars and Values from the variant configuration menu.

You see the initial screen. Enter the material for which you want to execute this function. You can enter the following data:

– The date on which you want to execute the reporting function.

If the material has been processed with engineering change management on different dates, different characteristics may be assigned to the material on different dates.

– The language in which you want the characteristics displayed.

In characteristics maintenance functions, you can enter language-dependent descriptions for characteristics and for values with CHAR format.

– You can define that characteristics are displayed with values.

– You can define that the status of dependencies is checked. If a dependency that is not released is allocated to a characteristic or characteristic value, the indicator for dependencies is selected in the result of the report.

Once you have defined your settings, choose Execute.

2. You see the configurable material and the class to which the material is allocated. Below it, you see a list of the characteristics of the material. You can print this list.

If object dependencies are allocated to a characteristic or characteristic value, the O indicator is selected. If you are interested in the status, released and locked dependencies are displayed differently.

If a characteristic is required entry, the R indicator is selected.

If a value is defined as a default value, the D indicator is selected.

You can select a characteristic and display detailed information on its format and attributes.