Screen Areas in Equipment

[kashimawo1]

Good day to you all. I believe you are all well.

I need some help here. I am involved in an implementation project where we 've already defined 5 equipment categories. Business do not want too many categories in the system.

However, we have a technical object type (Relay equipment) that requires data on Protection settings to be maintained. Relay has been categorized among other technical object types as Machines. Now, we cant use same view profile common to the category : Machines to define the additional view required to maintain the protection settings Relay equipment. The ideal solution would be to use a new category but business don't want additional category.

My question is, can we control screen areas with the combination of Category and Object type? Such that when creating equipment Relay, once the Object type (Relay) is entered it should give a different view from the normal views of the equipment category just as available in Fleet.

Your response would be very much appreciated.

Regards.

Kash

[jogeswararao_kavala]

Hi kASHIMAWO,

Is the configuration setting in OIAD  or OIAF through influencing field EQART (Object type) , of help to you? Though you might not be able to control the Tabs, but you will be able to control the visibility of certain fields depending upon Type of Technical Object. See the picture.

Jogeswara Rao K

[Former Member]

Option is to explore Settings for Fleet Management.

Here, based on Object type & Equipment category, you can have different view profile than the assigned view profile in Equipment category configuration.

As mentioned above, Classification is one of the ways to mention that details. These views can be added in separate view profile & that profile can be assigned in IMG - Plant Maintenance & Customer Service - Master Data in Plant Maintenance & Customer Service - Technical Objects - Settings for Fleet Management - Assign View Profile & Equipment Categories to Fleet Object types.

Even though, name has been restricted to Fleet Objects, this can be used for other kinds of equipments as well.

[kashimawo1]

Pete,

i had considered using the class-characteristics functionality but the protection settings is a complex data maintenance with some dependency requirement.

Consider 20 characteristics: c1, c2, c3.............c20

c1 has about 25 values; c2 values depends on c1 value. So if you select c1 value say n1, there will be about 10 drop down values of c2; if you change the value of c1 to n2, you could have say 15 possible drop down values of c2

Further, the values of c3, c4.........c20 depends on the combination of c1 and c2 values selected.

So am looking to configure a Z-fields using table with dependency btw c1 and c2 with drop down values on those two fields using Additional data 3 screen.

however if you still think characteristics can be used to map these data dependencies with drop down values as described, that would be helpful.

Regards

kash

[kashimawo1]

Thanks for your response.

Please are you suggesting that we can use the fleet object type settings in this respect even though the equipment concerns is not fleet equipment?

Considering the additional information provided in my response to Pete, do you still think Characteristic functionality is still a possibility?

Thanks for your anticipated response.

Regards

Kash

[peter_atkin]

Kash,

Yes - classes and characteristics is still possible.

The inter-relation between characteristics/values can be achieved through Variant Configuration (VC) using tables, object dependencies, functions, etc.

Useful links:

Variant Configuration (LO-VC) - SAP Library

PeteA

[kashimawo1]

Hi Pete,

Thanks for your response and the document links. I am however struggling to apply this to my requirement.

c1     c2     c3.....c5

n1     a1     x.......x

n1     a2     x.......x

n1     a3     x.......x

n1     a4     x.......x

n1     a5     x.......x

n2     b1     x.......x

n2     b2     x.......x

n2     b3     x.......x

n3     m1     x.......x

n3     m2     x.......x

n3     m3     x.......x

n3     m4     x.......x

So, 5 characteristics (c1 to c5) are in play here. c1 has 3 possible values; c2 possible values are dependent on selected c1 value as shown. That is, if I select c1 = n1, c2 possible values will be a1, a2, a3, a4 and a5. And if c1 = n2, then c2 values will be b1, b2 or b3 while if c1 = n3, then c2 possible values will be m1, m2, m3 or m4

And characteristics c3...c5 allowed any values

Can you please guide me on how variant configuration can be used to actualize this requirement?

Looking forward to your usual helpful response.

Kash

[peter_atkin]

This can be done with object dependencies (preconditions).

SAP SD Variant Configuration Video Tutorials  | SAP Materials, Documents, Tutorials

PeteA

[peter_atkin]

Kash,

Why not use classification to store the relay details. Then use the Object Type field to identify the equipment as a Relay.

PeteA