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Jun 29, 2009 at 08:06 PM

Characteristic Relationships

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Hi, We have our charcteristic relationships defined in 3 DataStore Objects and my Planning Cube is empty. When I bring up my planning spreadsheet it brings in the actual characteristics values for Sales Org, Sales Office, and Sales Group. Now, some of these combinations do not exist in the DataStore Objects, but it is still allowing me to input and save planning values of those combinations not existing in my DataStore. Is this correct? Can you add some insight to this process. It's been a while since I've done this planning and the documentation is confusing at best.

Here's the link I was referring to:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/43/1c3d0f31b70701e10000000a422035/frameset.htm

This is the part that I thought meant I shouldn't be able to add planning values again combinations not in the DataStore:

Each input-ready query and planning function automatically takes the characteristic relationships into account:

● In an input-ready query, this means that cells of invalid characteristic combinations are not input ready and new data records that have invalid characteristic combinations cannot be created.

● Planning functions use the characteristic relationships to constantly check whether new characteristic combinations are valid. If there are invalid combinations, the system produces an error message.

Thanks,