SAP ABAP Data Element CPET_PERDETRULE (CPE Term - Period Determination Rule)
Hierarchy
☛ PI_BASIS (Software Component) Basis Plug-In
   ⤷ CA-GTF-CPE (Application Component) Commodity Pricing Engine
     ⤷ CPE_BASIS (Package) Commodity Pricing Engine: Basic Objects
Basic Data
Data Element CPET_PERDETRULE
Short Description CPE Term - Period Determination Rule  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type CPE_RULE    
Data Type CHAR   Character String 
Length 5    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 5    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
Search Help: Name CPE_PERDETRULE    
Search Help: Parameters RULE   
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 PerDetRule 
Medium 20 Period Determ. Rule 
Long 40 Period Determination Rule 
Heading 5 PerRl 
Documentation

Definition

Defines the rule for determining the period during which price quotations or currency exchange rates are to be considered.

Use

A period determination rule defines the following details:

  • Period determination routine used for calculating the period
  • Source Routine for reading quotations or exchange rates from a specific table
  • Fields for calculating the period:
    • Reference Date Routine for choosing the starting point of the period determination
    • Date Offset Routine and Number of Time Units for calculating the base date out of the reference date
    • Time UoM Routine and Time Units Before and Time Units After for defining the length of the period before and after the base date
    • Excluding Base Date flag to exclude the base date from the period

or

  • Fix Start Date/Time and Fix End Date/Time

  • Read-until routine for restricting the use of data after a certain date
  • Date list routine for defining the number of entries within the period
  • Period determination calendar for knowing closed days of the market
  • Missing entry routine for handling missing data
  • Closed days routine for handling days with closed market
  • Maximum weighting to define the maximal weight of one entry during the calculation

Period determination rules can be defined in the commodity pricing engine (CPE) Customizing activity, Define Period Determination Rule.

Whenever conversion rules with the Use Averaging of Currency Exchange Rates flag set should be used within a commodity pricing formula, a period determination rule for the currency exchange rates has to be used.

Dependencies

The customer namespace for Rules is A0000 to ZZZZZ.

Example

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20130604 
SAP Release Created in 2004_1_46C