BAPI to Read Classification Information Maintained for an Object (Equipment/Material/etc)

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By Sheetal Reddy Proddutur, CSC

The characteristic inherits all the technical attributes of the field in the origin table, including all the valid values that exist for that characteristic. These values are stored in a 'check table' or in the corresponding domain. In Profitability Analysis, the characteristic can only take on values from this value set. SAP Characteristics Tables and Fields. Characteristic Descriptions can be found at table CABN / CABNT in the field CABNT-ATBEZ. Characteristic Values can be found at table AUSP in the field AUSP-ATWRT for Characteristic Value and AUSP-ATFLV for Data Values. The field AUSP-OBJEK is Key of Object for Characteristic (Material, Customer, ).

Sometimes additional link information is useful when you link a document with an SAP object. Classification makes it possible for you to characterize a document - SAP object link (for example, Equipment sale price) by using characteristics.

For example, you can add additional price information, such as sale price, to Equipment.

You can maintain classification in either the document info record or in the master record for the object. You maintain the essential classification data in the classification system.

Below steps are generally maintained by functional consultants.

Before you can use classification functions, you need to set up your classification system.

There are three steps to setting up a classification system:

1.Defining the Properties of Objects

You use characteristics to describe the properties of objects. You create characteristics centrally in the system.

See the SAP Library, Characteristics (CA-CL-CHR).

2.Creating Classes

You need classes to classify objects. These classes must be set up. During set up you must assign characteristics to the classes.

3.Assigning Objects

Once you have created the classes you require for classification, you can assign objects to these classes. You use the characteristics of the class to describe the objects you classify.

This completes the data you require to use your classification system. You can then use your classification system to find objects that match the criteria you require.

Once you have set up the classification system you can use it to find certain objects. To do this:

Find a class in which objects are classified
Find the object(s) you require in the class

When you use classification to find objects, you use the characteristics as search criteria, and the system compares the values you enter with the values of the classified objects.

Here we will see how to read values that are maintained in characteristics of a class.

In this tutorial we will get values of characteristics of a class maintained for Equipment.

1.Go to IE03 -> enter

2.Click class overview

3.Here we can see the class type is ‘002’ , class ‘Z_EQP_DETAIL’ , Characteristic ‘Z_EQUIP_PRICE’ and value ‘10000.00’. (get Characteristic name as shown in below screen shots).

3.a select Characteristic and select ‘choose’ button

3.b select explanation button in the pop-up.

3.c We can see Characteristic name and value

We will see how to read this value using BAPI.

Call BAPI ‘BAPI_OBJCL_GETDETAIL’and pass below parameters.

Objectkey – Equipment number (130583)

Objecttable – Equipment master table (EQUI)

Classnum – Class (Z_EQP_DETAIL)

Classtype – Class type (002)

In the return parameters values are stored in table ‘allocvaluescurr’.

Read this table with key charact = characteristic name (Z_EQUIP_PRICE). Value is returned in ‘value_from’ field.

Introduction

In SAP S/4HANA Cloud Master Data, there are 2 useful apps ‘Export Master Data’ and ‘Mass Maintenance for Master Data’ that can be used for the Product Master and Business Partner areas to allow a customer to export master data to Excel for filtering/reporting purposes and also for mass update of data to reduce manual effort

A little-known gem of these apps is that it also allows the Export / Mass update of Classification as well!

Sap Mass Update Characteristic Values 2019

For Classification, the initial creation is uploaded using the Migration Object ‘Object classification’ in the app “Migrate your data” but afterward if you wish to mass update the classification assigned to an object such as Material ( class type 001 ) there is no Classification app like transaction CLMM for SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Tomodachi life mbti.

The API and Interface API_PRODUCT_SRV and PRODUCTMDMBULKREPLICATEREQUEST respectively support the update of ( POST / PATCH / PUT ) for Product Master Data fields but does not include Classification

There is an API for Classification which is API_CLFN_PRODUCT_SRV but it only allows READ operation and not update (POST / PATCH / PUT ) as of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Essentials Edition 2102

The use of these 2 apps ‘Export Master Data’ and ‘Mass Maintenance for Master Data’ allow update of classification as a workaround till dedicated classification apps / APIs are available in future releases

What Apps and Roles are needed to follow this blog post to mass update material classification?

The following example was tested in an SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2102 Essentials System.
The User involved has 2 roles SAP_BR_PRODMASTER_SPECIALIST and
SAP _BR_PRODUCT_CONFIG_MODELER assigned.

With the role SAP _BR_PRODUCT_CONFIG_MODELER you are able to access the ‘Manage Characteristic’ and ‘Manage Class’ apps to create the characteristics involved and to add them to a new class of type 001 ( Material Class )

With the role SAP_BR_PRODMASTER_SPECIALIST you are able to follow the process of creating the products involved and then use the apps ‘Export Master Data’ and ‘Mass Maintenance for Master Data’ to download, change and reupload to mass change the classification

Creating the Test Data

The example consists of 2 products, 4 characteristics of different formats, and 1 class of type 001 – Material Class

Step 1: Creating the characteristics

Open the app ‘Manage Characteristics’
Input characteristic name, for example, COLOUR and Create button
Input description and in the dropdown for Data Type, select ‘Character format’
Under Value assignment – select “Single-value”
Press Enter
For the field ‘Number of chars’, input a value for a number of chars, for example, 8
Navigate to the values tab
Input a char value’s and description

Repeats steps 1 to 8 and create different characteristics of type ‘Numeric Format’,’ Time Format’ and ‘Date Format’

All characteristics have the Value assignment – select “Single-value”

Characteristic values maintained for Colour

Characteristic values maintained for Length

Characteristic values maintained for Date

Characteristic values maintained for Time

Step 2: Creating the Class

Open the app ‘Manage Classes’
Input class name
Input class-type 001
Press create button
Input class description
Navigate to char. Tab
Input chars created from Step 1
Press save

Class with Characteristics assigned

Step 3 Creating the product (s )

Open the app ‘Manage Product Master Data’
Click on the create button
In the Create