Hierarchy
EA-APPL (Software Component) SAP Enterprise Extension PLM, SCM, Financials⤷
LO-VC (Application Component) Variant Configuration⤷
PME_VC_EDITION (Package) Modeling Environment for Variant Configuration
Basic Data
| Data Element | VTC_GC |
| Short Description | Value Derivation from a Guiding Characteristic |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | Direct Type Entry | |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | ||
| Data Type | CHAR | Character String |
| Length | 1 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 1 | |
| Value Table |
Further Characteristics
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| No Input History | ||
| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 2 | GC |
| Medium | 6 | Der GC |
| Long | 25 | Derive from Guiding cstic |
| Heading | 25 | Derive from Guiding cstic |
Documentation
Definition
By valuating a specific characteristic, viewed as guiding characteristic, unique values of other characteristics are derived.
The variant table combines both, the values of the guiding characteristic and the values of the determined characteristics.
Since the value of a single guiding characteristic derives values for a set of n characteristics, this operation is also called 1->n derivation.
Use
Choose this constraint if you want a series of characteristic to be automatically valuated once the user selects a value for the guiding characteristic during interactive configuration.
Prerequisites
Provide the value combinations of the guiding and the determined characteristics in a variant table. Ensure the guiding characteristic is defined as the key column of the table. The wizard will identify and display such tables and list the characteristic that can be determined. Therefore selecting a table means to select the characteristics to be determined.
If the wizard cannot find such a variant table, you will be asked to create one.
The content of the table can be maintained independently from the wizard.
Example
Take for example the configurable material Personal Computer. Amongst others the following characteristics are defined:
PC Model: Home, Professional, Media, Business
Main Memory: 512 MB, 1024 MB
Processor: 2.6 GHz, 3.0 GHz
By selecting the PC Model you want the main memory and the processor to be derived. List the value combinations that determine the main memory and the processor and mark PC Model as key column.
PC Model Main Memory Processor
Home 512 MB 2.6 GHz
Business 512 MB 3.0 GHz
Professional 1024 MB 3.0 GHz
With this table you can apply the intended value derivation from the guiding characteristic PC Model.
Assuming the user selects Media as PC Model the main memory and the processor cannot be derived since a respective table row is missing. In case the derivation is set to mandatory a configuration conflict will be denoted.
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20050615 |
| SAP Release Created in | 600 |
