SAP ABAP Data Element PVS_POSVAR (Variant)

Hierarchy

☛ EA-IPPE (Software Component) SAP iPPE
   ⤷ AP-PPE (Application Component) Integrated Product and Process Engineering
     ⤷ CPPEENG (Package) iPPE Engine

Basic Data

Data Element	PVS_POSVAR
Short Description	Variant

Data Type

Category of Dictionary Type	D	Domain
Type of Object Referenced		No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type	PVS_POSVAR
Data Type	CHAR	Character String
Length	8
Decimal Places	0
Output Length	8
Value Table

Further Characteristics

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Parameter ID	POSV
Default Component name	VARIANT_NAME
Change document	☑
No Input History	☐
Basic direction is set to LTR	☐
No BIDI Filtering	☐

Field Label

	Length	Field Label
Short	10	Variant
Medium	17	Variant
Long	17	Variant
Heading	20	Variant

Documentation

Definition

Contains the name of the variant.

Variants in iPPE represent the concrete forms of a node.

• Component variants are the concrete forms (materials) of a structure node.
• Color variants are the concrete forms (colors) of a color scheme.

Dependencies

The system uses the object dependencies, which are stored at the variants, to select a particular variant.

History

Last changed by/on	SAP	20041209
SAP Release Created in