Configuring Interests/Characteristics by Adding Info Areas to the Data Model

Adding Info Areas

Add two info areas, e. g.:

• C001 - Characteristics Group:

  Add all the required fields. The info area must contain the Interest Group (45) catalog.

  
  
  
• C002 - Characteristics:

  Add all the required fields. The info area must contain the Interest Group (45) and Interest (46).

  
  
  

  Define a link to the C001 info area:

  
  
  

Defining the Field Groups

You need to define the following field groups:

• C001 (C001 info area):
  • Details control:

    Add at least the Interest Group field.

  • List control:

    Add at least the Interest Group field. Assign the following functions:

  Field	Function	Description
  Interest Group	Group	Defines the Interest Group.
  A boolean field	Single	Defines that the user can only select one item within an Interest Group.
  A boolean field	ShowGroupExpanded	Defines that this group is displayed expanded.

• C002 (C002 info area):
  • List control:

    Add at least the Interest Group field. Assign the following functions:

  Field	Function	Description
  Interest Group	Group	Defines the Interest Group.
  Interest	Item	Defines the Interest.
  A boolean field	ShowAdditionalFields	Defines that additional fields are also displayed.

• IT (IT info area):
  • Details and List control:

    Add at least the Interest Group and the Interest fields. If you have added other fields that have the ShowAdditionalFields function assigned, add them as well. Assign the functions according to the List control of the C002 info area.

  • Edit control:

    Add at least the Interest Group and the Interest fields and assign the Group and Item functions. If you want to add further fields, you need not assign the ShowAdditionalFields function.

    Search control:

    Add the Interest Group and the Interest fields, you need not assign a function.

  Note: Ensure that also a Header Group, an Expand configuration and Table Captions exist for the field groups.

Defining the Filters

You can define that filters are also applied.

The following example shows filters that are applied in the default LSI industry solution:

The U019.Definition_Account filter uses the Accounttype function name as $parAcccounttype parameter:

However, to apply this filter, you must add a field group to the FI info area and add the following field and function:

Defining the Search&List Configurations

Define Search&List configurations for the C001, C002 and the IT info areas by assigning the desired field groups, header groups, filters etc.

Assign these Search&List configurations to the following input arguments in the Characteristics action call, see Characteristics: