Hierarchy
AIN (Software Component) AIN 710: Add-On Installation⤷
AIE-AII (Application Component) Infrastructure⤷
/AIN/BARCODE (Package) Auto-ID Barcode Support
Basic Data
| Data Element | /AIN/AIVLL |
| Short Description | Element Identifier Variable Length |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | NUMC1 | |
| Data Type | NUMC | Character string with only digits |
| Length | 1 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 1 | |
| Value Table |
Further Characteristics
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| Change document | ||
| No Input History | ||
| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | Var.length |
| Medium | 15 | Variable length |
| Long | 22 | Places for var.length |
| Heading | 8 | VarLngth |
Documentation
Definition
The system determines the element length using this formula:
element length = element identifier variable length value * multiplier + addition factor.
The element identifier variable length specifies the number of characters after the element identifier that contains the value of the element identifier variable length.
The multiplier and addition factor are specified in the fields Multipl. and Addition Factor respectively.
Use
Dependencies
Example
The element identifier for lot number, as defined in the EAN128 standard, is 23. Assume that you decide to use one character for the element identifier variable length.
Further assume that you have the bar code (233) 1233426. Of the first three numbers (233), 23 is the element identifier, which tells SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure that the characters that follow it have to do with the lot number. Now, assume that in Customizing you have set the element identifier variable length as 1 for element identifier it means that the one character following 23 (that is, 3), is the value of the element identifier variable length.
Further assume that the multiplication factor is 2 and the addition factor is 1. You can now calculate an element length of 7 based on the formula:
element length = element identifier variable length value * multiplier + addition factor.
7 = (3 * 2) + 1
This means that 7 characters must follow the element identifier (233), and that these 7 characters make up the lot number. Therefore, in this example, the lot number is 1233426.
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20141109 |
| SAP Release Created in | 210 |
