Create Application Group and Characteristic Display (2NI) PUBLIC

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Master Data Script PUBLIC

SAP S/4HANA - 18-09-20
Create Application Group and Characteristic
Display (2NI)

Table of Contents

1 Purpose

2 Prerequisites
2.1 System Access
2.2 Roles
2.3 Mandatory and Operational Master Data
2.4 Main Parameters for Data Creation
2.4.1 Transaction

3 Overview Table

4 Test Procedures
4.1 Create Application Group
4.2 Create Characteristic Display
1 Purpose

In this document you find a description of how to create characteristic display record for your SAP S/4HANA system. The description includes those data that
are relevant for the SAP S/4HANA appliance, such as Application Group, Characteristic Display and Characteristic Assignment. Fields that are not relevant for
the scope of the SAP S/4HANA content as delivered by SAP Best Practices are not described in this document.

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2 Prerequisites

This section summarizes all the prerequisites for conducting the test in terms of systems, users, master data, organizational data, other test data and busi-
ness conditions.

2.1 System Access

Sys- Details
tem
Sys- Accessible via SAP Fiori launchpad. Your system administrator provides you with the URL to access the various apps assigned
tem to your role.

2.2 Roles
Assign the following business roles to your individual test users. Alternatively, if available, you can create business roles using the following spaces with
pages and predefined apps for the SAP Fiori launchpad and assign the business roles to your individual test users.
Note These roles or spaces are examples provided by SAP. You can use them as templates to create your own roles or spaces.
For more information about business roles, refer to Assigning business roles to a user in the Administration Guide to Implementation of SAP S/4HANA with
SAP Best Practices .

Name (Role) ID (Role) Description ID (Space) Log

(Space) On
Product Configuration Mod- SAP_BR_PRODUCT_CONFIG_MODELER Variant Configura- SAP_BR_PRODUCT_CONFIG_MODELER
eler tion

2.3 Mandatory and Operational Master Data

Characteristic Display records may refer to other master data. The following table gives an overview of optional and mandatory master data objects to be
used in a material master data record.
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 Master Data Used in Data Seg- Mandatory / Op- Comments
Object ment tional
Characteristics Mandatory Characteristics are to be assigned to characteristic display
record

2.4 Main Parameters for Data Creation

In this section, we describe some basic parameters that influence the behavior of a master record and are always required to create a characteristic display.

2.4.1 Transaction
With the help of Transaction, the system determines in which transaction the characteristic display should be available.
For 1711 edition, only the Sales and Distribution Document is supported.

Transaction Comment
Sales and Distribution Docu- For 1711 edition, only Sales and Distribution Document is supported for characteris-
ment tic display.

Production Order

Trading Contract

Purchase Order

Goods Receipt

Order Confirmation

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3 Overview Table

In this section, a list of steps a user goes through when creating a master data record is provided. Every logical, meaningful segment of a master data object
should lead to a separate step (for example: org.-unit dependent data segments and so on).
The scope item Create Application Group and Characteristic Display consists of several process steps provided in the following tables:
If your system administrator has enabled spaces and pages on the SAP Fiori launchpad, the homepage will only contain the essential apps for performing the
typical tasks of a business role.
You can find all other apps not included on the homepage using the search bar.
If you want to personalize the homepage and include the hidden apps, navigate to your user profile and choose Settings > App Finder .

Process Step, Report or Item Business Role Transaction/APP Expected Results

Create Application Group [page ] 6 Product Configuration Mod- Maintain Char. Display for Configuration (CU_CHAR_DIS- Application Group is cre-
eler PLAY) ated

Create Characteristic Display Product Configuration Mod- Maintain Char. Display for Configuration (CU_CHAR_DIS- Application Group is cre-
[page ] 7 eler PLAY) ated

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4 Test Procedures

This section describes procedures for each process step that belongs to this scope item. You can use these procedures also for testing the master data cre-
ation.

4.1 Create Application Group

Test Administration

Customer project: Fill in the project-specific parts.

Test Case ID <X.XX> Tester Name Testing Enter a test date.

Date

Business
Role(s)

Responsibility <State the Service Provider, Customer or Joint Service Provider and Customer> Duration Enter a duration.

Procedure

Test Test Step Instruction Expected Result Pass / Fail /

Step # Name Comment
1 Log On Log on to the SAP Fiori launchpad as a Product Configuration Mod- The SAP Fiori launchpad displays.
eler.

2 Access the SAP Open Maintain Char. Display for Configuration (CU_CHAR_DIS- The Change View ''Application
Fiori App PLAY). Group'': Overview view displays.

3 Enter Applica- On the Change View ''Application Group'': Overview screen, The New Entries: Overview of Added
tion Group choose New Entry. And make the following entries: Entries screen displays.

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 Test Test Step Instruction Expected Result Pass / Fail /
Step # Name Comment
● Transact. : <Select from dropdown list>
● Appl Grp: <Any code>

4 Save Your Data Choose Save.

4.2 Create Characteristic Display

Test Administration

Customer project: Fill in the project-specific parts.

Test Case ID <X.XX> Tester Name Testing Enter a test date.

Date

Business
Role(s)

Responsibility <State the Service Provider, Customer or Joint Service Provider and Customer> Duration Enter a duration.

Procedure

Test Test Step Instruction Expected Result Pass / Fail /

Step # Name Comment
1 Log On Log on to the SAP Fiori launchpad as a Product Configuration The SAP Fiori launchpad displays.
Modeler.

2 Access the SAP Choose Maintain Char. Display for Configuration (CU_CHAR_DIS- The Change View ''Application Group'':
Fiori App PLAY). Overview view displays.

3 Enter Applica- On the Change View ''Application Group'': Overview screen, The Change View ''Characteristic Dis-
tion Group choose Characteristic Display. play'': Overview screen displays.
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 Test Test Step Instruction Expected Result Pass / Fail /
Step # Name Comment
Choose New Entry. Make the following entry and press Enter:
● Char. Display: <Any code>.
● Description: <Enter description for the characteristic
display>.
● Appl. Grp: <Select F4 for help>.

4 Assign Charac- Choose the characteristic display created in previous step and The Change View ''Characteristic Assign-
teristic select Characteristic Assignment. ment'': Overview screen displays.
Make the following entries:
● Seq.: <Enter sequence number to determine the se-
quence of characteristic>.
● Characteristic Name: <Search for a characteristic by
selecting F4 search help>.
● Col.: <Enter proper column width in order to show
characteristic description and value>.

5 Save Your Data Choose Save.

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