Flexible and extendable methods for the maintenance of element values are provided:

Plausibility check

Plausibility check rules can check the valuation of element values. If the validity is violated, warnings or error messages are issued. Individual messages can also be configured.

The following plausibility check rules are available

  • Defined values from a value list

  • Date

Both single values and interval values with corresponding unit conversions are plausible.

Value list

Value lists for elements can be created from different sources:

  • Domain, defined values for an element with multilingual text and validity period

  • Specification Type, QPPD objects with specification types with multi-language text, validity period, and status

  • SAP ECC Object values of SAP standard business objects such as business partner or material master.

  • Table or CDS-View individual values based on tables, database views, or CDS views.

  • Classification values from classification characteristics

In addition to the master key, the value list contains the descriptive multilingual text.

Constraint-based plausibility check

Value lists can be additionally filtered depending on other element values.  Any combination of conditional element values can be mapped. The set of rules for the conditional check, also called context check, can be created from different sources:

  • Domain tab strip page for the specification type Domain

  • Specification type, tab strip page for the relevant regulation type

  • BRFplus Business Rule Framework with the use of decision tables.

Search helps

Search helps display the possible values according to the value list. Value lists from conditional plausibility checks are also supported. The following types of search helps are possible.

  • Domain, key values with multilingual text, and filtering by the validity period

  • Specification type, key values with multilingual text, and filtering by validity period and status

  • SAP ECC object, search helps for the SAP standard object such as business partner or material master.

  • Individual search helps based on table or CDS-View. Conditional plausibility check Element values are automatically included in the selection conditions.

Standard values and mandatory fields

Based on the value lists with context check, default values can also be specified. The source for the default value definition is in:

  • Domain, for the context element combinations standard values, and mandatory field controls can be defined.

  • BRFplus, a Business Rule Framework using decision tables for context check, a default value, and mandatory field controls can also be specified.