SAP ABAP Data Element CLS_IS_SINGLE_VALUED (Cardinality of classifications)

Hierarchy

☛ SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component
   ⤷ BC-DWB-UTL-CLS (Application Component) Classification Toolset
     ⤷ SPAK_API_CLASSIFICATION (Package) API for Classification Tool Set

Basic Data

Data Element	CLS_IS_SINGLE_VALUED
Short Description	Cardinality of classifications

Data Type

Category of Dictionary Type	D	Domain
Type of Object Referenced		No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type	FLAG
Data Type	CHAR	Character String
Length	1
Decimal Places	0
Output Length	1
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Field Label

	Length	Field Label
Short	10	Single val
Medium	13	Single valued
Long	23	Single valued attribute
Heading	30	The attribute is single valued

Documentation

Definition

If a characteristic is single-valued, then a classification can assign at most one value to each object. Characteristics that are not single-valued are referred to as multi-valued characteristics.

Use

The setting whether a characteristic is single valued and the existence of a default value influence the cardinality of classifications with respect to the characteristic:

• Single-valued, without default value: 1:0..1
• Single-valued, with default value: 1:1
• Multi-valued, without default value: 1:*
• Multi-valued, with default value: 1:n

Dependencies

For single-valued attributes, it has to be specified whether the maximum or the minimum of two values is effective.

Example

A characteristic with values 'Yes' and 'No' is typically single-valued. A characteristic that specifies countries in which an object can be used, would be multi-valued.

History

Last changed by/on	SAP	20130604
SAP Release Created in	710