Hierarchy
EA-APPL (Software Component) SAP Enterprise Extension PLM, SCM, Financials⤷
LO-PDM-GF (Application Component) General Functions⤷
CMAP (Package) Semantic Mapping
Basic Data
| Data Element | CMAP_ATRBID |
| Short Description | Attribute ID |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | CMAP_ID | |
| Data Type | CHAR | Character String |
| Length | 10 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 10 | |
| Value Table |
Further Characteristics
| Search Help: Name | CMAP_SH_ATRB | |
| Search Help: Parameters | ID | |
| Parameter ID | ||
| Default Component name | ||
| Change document | ||
| No Input History | ||
| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | Attr.ID |
| Medium | 15 | Attr.ID |
| Long | 20 | Attribute ID |
| Heading | 10 | Attr.ID |
Documentation
Definition
Key that identifies an attribute.
Use
During the transformation of data between a STEP server and a SAP System the attribute is a central modeling element. An attribute cumulates all information with which an attribute of an object in the data model of the target and source system is described.
The component of an attribute specifies which data from the data model describes a particular attribute.
In a mapping process, an attribute in the data model of the target and source system is converted in such a way that an object can be described and identified based on this attribute.
Example
Attribute: Material type
Target system
In the target system (SAP System) a material, among other things, is described by a material type. In the data model of the SAP System a material type is determined in the following way:
- Database table (MARA)
- Key field in the database table (MTART)
For attributes, this informatoin is managed in the form of attribute components. For this, you maintain the attribute type MB (Member), which summarizes the following components:
- Object Name
- Attribute Name
You maintain the attribute R3-MATNR with reference to the material type MB. You create the following attribute components relevant to this attribute type:
- Object Name: MARA (Object name for the database table for the material master record)
- Attribute Name: MTART (Field name from the table MARA for the material type)
Source system
In the source system, this information is shown in two attributes: item_type.name (Item Type's Name) and item_type.process (Item Type's Process).
The attributes item_type.name and item_type.process are described in the data model of the source system in the following way:
item_type.name item_type.process
item item
classification classification
name process
For the attribute, this information is managed in the form of attribute components. For this, you maintain attribute type R1 (Directly referenced objects attribute), which summarizes the following components:
- Object Name
- Reference Name
- Attribute Name
If you maintain both attributes with reference to attribute type R1, enter the following components relevant to this attribute type:
Component item_type.name item_type.process
of the attribute type.
Object Name item item
Reference Name classification classification
Attribute Name name process
Dependencies
The following activities are necessary after the maintenance of an attribute:
- You determine the definition of which attribute in the source system replaces an attribute in the target system (for example document type) in the step: maintain mapping context -> maintain attribute mapping.
- In the activity maintain standard values you can create a Standard value for the target system.
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20020107 |
| SAP Release Created in |
