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<Session ID="/baanerp/ti/pcf/tipcf3101m000" xml:lang="en">
	<Header>
		<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Generic Item - Settings for Data Generation (tipcf3101m000)</Title>
	</Header>
	<HelpTopic><AimSection><Paragraph>Use this session to maintain data that determines how SSA ERP generates generic item data.</Paragraph>
		</AimSection>
		<GeneralSection><List><ListIntro>You can generically define the item data that is produced when you configure <Link href="/baanerp/td/glossary/glossary#ProducVarian.td" role="glossary">product variants</Link>. The item data can be generically compiled of fixed code elements or option values for product features. The following data can be entered with situation dependent data or with fixed data:</ListIntro>
				<ListItem>Item code.</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Description.</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Material.</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Size.</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Standard.</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Text.</ListItem>
			</List>
			<Paragraph>You can control the eventual structure of the item code for a product variant by using constraints. You can also define the other item data generically.</Paragraph>
			<Note><SectionTitle>Note</SectionTitle>
				<Paragraph>The created item data is used when you generate the structure for a <Link href="/baanerp/ti/glossary/glossary#000023" role="glossary">project</Link> or a <Link href="/baanerp/ti/glossary/glossary#000082" role="glossary">budget</Link> of a product variant in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/pcs/tipcs2220m000" role="session">Generate (Project) Structure for Product Variant (tipcs2220m000)</GUIRef> session.</Paragraph>
			</Note>
			<Paragraph>If SSA ERP must generate an identifying item code, the <GUIRef href="" role="manual">Identifying Item Code</GUIRef> check box in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/pcf/tipcf0100m000" role="session">Product Configuration Parameters (tipcf0100m000)</GUIRef> session must be selected. If SSA ERP must use the generic item code supplemented with a sequence number, the check box must be cleared.</Paragraph>
		</GeneralSection>
		<RelatedTopics><SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
			<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/100004" role="manual">How to define a product model</Link>
			</RelTopic>
			<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/100011" role="manual">PCF procedures</Link>
			</RelTopic>
		</RelatedTopics>
	</HelpTopic>
	<Fields><FieldHelp ID="tipcf300.item"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Generic Item</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>The code of the generic item to which product features apply. A generic item is an item that exists in multiple product variants.</FuncDesc>
			<Note><SectionTitle>Note</SectionTitle>
				<Paragraph>The item code to be selected must be predefined in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/ibd/tcibd0101s000" role="session">Item - General (tcibd0101s000)</GUIRef> session.</Paragraph>
			</Note>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="tipcf300.koid"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Item Field</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>You can generically define the item data that is produced when you configure <Link href="/baanerp/td/glossary/glossary#ProducVarian.td" role="glossary">product variants</Link>. The item data can be generically compiled of fixed code elements or option values for product features. The following data can be entered with situation dependent data or with fixed data.</FuncDesc>
			<SimpleSection><Paragraph>If SSA ERP cannot recognize the option description, the option value is automatically added to the option description. Product features must be enclosed by brackets ([...]) in text lines as well as text blocks, in the same way as in constraint expressions.</Paragraph>
			</SimpleSection>
			<AllowedValues><SectionTitle>Allowed values</SectionTitle>
				<List><ListItem><GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/domains/koid#item" role="enum">Item Code</GUIRef>. You can generically identify the item code that is produced when you configure product variants. The item code can be generically compiled of fixed code elements and/or option values for product features. By using constraints, you can control the eventual structure of the item code for a product variant. In the same way, you can define the other item data generically.</ListItem>
					<ListItem><GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/domains/koid#dsca" role="enum">Description</GUIRef>. The description of the item can be generically defined.</ListItem>
					<ListItem><GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/domains/koid#dscb" role="enum">Material</GUIRef>. The description of the item's material can be generically defined.</ListItem>
					<ListItem><GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/domains/koid#dscc" role="enum">Size</GUIRef>. The description of the item's size can be generically defined.</ListItem>
					<ListItem><GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/domains/koid#dscd" role="enum">Standard</GUIRef>. The description of the item's standard can be generically defined.</ListItem>
					<ListItem><GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/domains/koid#text" role="enum">Text</GUIRef>. The item text can be defined as a completely generic text. This text can be made up of individual text lines, option values for features and text blocks. In both individual text lines and text blocks, product features can be entered as variables. The product configurator or product generator then automatically substitutes these variables for the description of the chosen option value.</ListItem>
				</List>
			</AllowedValues>
			<SimpleSection><SectionTitle>INTERNAL/EXTERNAL TEXTS FOR SALES ORDER PROCEDURE</SectionTitle>
				<Paragraph>Enter the &lt; sign on the first position of each text line when the text is exclusively for internal use. Enter &gt; when text lines must be printed exclusively on external documents.</Paragraph>
			</SimpleSection>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="tipcf300.sern"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Sequence</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>By default, SSA ERP shows last used number plus 10; thus in the sequence of 10, 20, 30 and so on. The coding system used for generic items is free. However, you should adopt these default values because intermediate numbers are important when you add generic item data, such as inserting 15 between the preexisting values of 10 and 20.</FuncDesc>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="tipcf300.lang"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Text Line</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>When the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/messages/pcf31012" role="message">Enter a language code for text.</GUIRef> message appears. You can select the language code after you zoom to the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tt/aad/ttaad1510m000" role="session">Languages (ttaad1510m000)</GUIRef> session.</FuncDesc>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="tipcf300.txtl"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Text Line</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>The number of the text line for recording a generic item text.</FuncDesc>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="tipcf300.fpos"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">From Position</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>Enter the first position of the item data that you want to define as a generic item.</FuncDesc>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="tipcf300.tpos"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">To Position</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>The end position of the generic item field.</FuncDesc>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="tipcf300.desc"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Description</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>The description that must appear on the indicated positions in the generic item field during the configuration of product variants. It is identified by an alphanumeric code or by a text. If you fill in the fixed description, you can no longer fill in the <Link href="/baanerp/ti/glossary/glossary#000090" role="glossary">feature</Link> field and vice versa.</FuncDesc>
			<SimpleSection><List><ListIntro>There are two ways to generate generic item data:</ListIntro>
					<ListItem>With this fixed description.</ListItem>
					<ListItem>With the feature options for the product variant.</ListItem>
				</List>
				<Paragraph>Generating a fixed description for item data can be made dependent on the choice of feature options for the product variant. You can also fill in the <Link href="/baanerp/ti/glossary/glossary#100007" role="glossary">constraint identification code</Link>, if necessary.</Paragraph>
			</SimpleSection>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="tipcf300.cpft"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Product Feature</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>You can only fill in a product feature as a parameter for generic item data if the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/pcf/tipcf3101m000#tipcf300.desc" role="formfield">Description</GUIRef> field has been left empty. The product feature to be entered must be predefined in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/pcf/tipcf0150m000" role="session">Product Feature (tipcf0150m000)</GUIRef> session.</FuncDesc>
			<SimpleSection><Paragraph>Generating a variable description for an item field can be made dependent on the choice of feature options for the product variant. You can also fill the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/pcf/tipcf3101m000#tipcf300.cnsc" role="formfield">Constraint</GUIRef> field if necessary.</Paragraph>
				<Paragraph>The product feature for which the option value (which takes the form of the option value code or the option value description) must be placed on the indicated positions in the generic item field when configuring product variants. This is only possible if no description is entered for this item field.</Paragraph>
			</SimpleSection>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="disp.txta"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Text Block</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>If this check box is selected, a text block is present as a part of the generic item text block. You can display or maintain this text block by clicking the cursor in the field, or clicking the text manager button.</FuncDesc>
			<SimpleSection><Paragraph>If this check box is cleared, no text block is present as a part of the generic item text.</Paragraph>
			</SimpleSection>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="tipcf300.cnsc"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Constraint</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>The constraint code to be entered must be predefined in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/pcf/tipcf2101m000" role="session">Generic Item - Constraint IDs (tipcf2101m000)</GUIRef> session. You must only enter a constraint code when this code is also recorded in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/pcf/tipcf2110m000" role="session">Generic Item - Constraints (tipcf2110m000)</GUIRef> session.</FuncDesc>
			<SimpleSection><Paragraph>If you activate the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/pcf/tipcf2110m000" role="session">Generic Item - Constraints (tipcf2110m000)</GUIRef> session, you can then directly define <Link href="/baanerp/ti/glossary/glossary#100003" role="glossary">constraints</Link> by generic item. When you do so, SSA ERP asks you to create a new constraint code, if it was not entered previously.</Paragraph>
				<Paragraph>With the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/domains/cnss#substitution" role="enum">Parameter Substitution</GUIRef> section of the constraint, you can record under which conditions the generic item data must be included in the specific item data of the product variant.</Paragraph>
			</SimpleSection>
		</FieldHelp>
	</Fields>
</Session>
