SAP ABAP IMG Activity 0RPM_DEF_NAMEFORMAT (Define Employee Name Format)
Hierarchy
☛ CPRXRPM (Software Component) SAP Portfolio and Project Management 6.0
   ⤷ PPM-PFM (Application Component) Portfolio Management
     ⤷ RPM_IMG (Package) RPM IMG Objects
IMG Activity
ID 0RPM_DEF_NAMEFORMAT Define Employee Name Format  
Transaction Code S_XSD_23000152   (empty) 
Created on 20030605    
Customizing Attributes 0RPM_DEF_NAMEFORMAT   Define Employee Name Format 
Customizing Activity 0RPM_DEF_NAMEFORMAT   Define Employee Name Format 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name 0RPM_DEF_NAMEFORMAT    

Use

In this step, you can define the format of employee names for each country.

If you do not state any specific rule, the standard setting applies.

Requirements

Standard settings

The SAP standard setting contains several examples of name formats.

Activities

Create the required name formats or change the existing name formats.

To create a name format:

  1. Choose New Entries.
  2. In the Cty column, enter a country value.
  3. In the Format column, enter a format number.
  4. Select the new name format and double-click on Name Format Fields.
  5. Choose New Entries.
  6. In the Position column, enter a position for the field.
  7. In Field name column, select the field you want to see in that position from the dropdown list.
  8. Choose Save.

To change an existing name format:

  1. Select the name format you want to change.
  2. Double-click on Name Format Fields.
  3. To add more fields, choose New Entries and enter appropriate values in the Cty and Format columns.
  4. To change existing fields, select the field you want to change and select a different field from the dropdown list.
  5. Choose Save.

Example

The US 01 name format could contain the following fields:

Position    Field name

1    Title

2    First name

3    Middle initial

4    Last name

In this case, all US names would be formatted like Mr. Michael R. Willis.

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 201   Make global settings 
Mandatory / Optional 1   Mandatory activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 1   Critical 
Country-Dependency A   Valid for all countries 
Assigned Application Components
Documentation Object Class Documentation Object Name Current line number Application Component Application Component Name
SIMG 0RPM_DEF_NAMEFORMAT 0 /RPM/XSD0000011 Portfolio Management 
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type C   Customizing Object 
Assigned objects
Customizing Object Object Type Transaction Code Sub-object Do not Summarize Skip Subset Dialog Box Description for multiple selections
NAMEFORMAT C - View cluster SM34  
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20040109 
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