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<Session ID="/baanerp/tc/ibd/tcibd0501m000" xml:lang="en">
	<Header>
		<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Items - General (tcibd0501m000)</Title>
	</Header>
	<HelpTopic><AimSection><Paragraph>Use this session to list general item data, which you can define and modify in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/ibd/tcibd0101s000" role="session">Item - General (tcibd0101s000)</GUIRef> details session.</Paragraph>
		</AimSection>
		<GeneralSection><Paragraph>General item data is the item data that applies to all the SSA ERP packages. In addition to general item data, you can also define item data that is specific for a particular SSA ERP package. This item data is defined in that particular SSA ERP package.</Paragraph>
			<ExampleSection><SectionTitle>Example</SectionTitle>
				<Paragraph>You can define item data that specifically applies to sales transactions in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/td/isa/tdisa0101s000" role="session">Item - Sales (tdisa0101s000)</GUIRef> session. Before you can define the sales item data, you must first define the item in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/ibd/tcibd0101s000" role="session">Item - General (tcibd0101s000)</GUIRef> session.</Paragraph>
			</ExampleSection>
		</GeneralSection>
		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Copy items</SectionTitle>
			<ProcedureList><ListIntro>If you want to define an item that has many details in common with an existing item, you can copy the existing item. Take the following steps:</ListIntro>
				<ListItem>Select the item in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/ibd/tcibd0501m000" role="session">Items - General (tcibd0501m000)</GUIRef> session.</ListItem>
				<ListItem>On the <GUIRef href="" role="menu">Edit</GUIRef> menu, click <GUIRef href="/baanerp/stcommands/stcommands#stp_dupl.occur" role="standard command" Update="No">Duplicate</GUIRef>. The <Link href="/baanerp/tc/ibd/tcibd0205m000" role="session">Copy Item Data (tcibd0205m000)</Link> session starts.</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Use the <Link href="/baanerp/tc/ibd/tcibd0205m000" role="session">Copy Item Data (tcibd0205m000)</Link> session to copy the source item data to a new target item. You can select check boxes to indicate the type of data that must be copied.</ListItem>
			</ProcedureList>
		</GeneralSection>
		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Delete items</SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph>You can also delete item data. Therefore, you either:</Paragraph>
			<List><ListItem>Select an item, and click <GUIRef href="/baanerp/stcommands/stcommands#stp_mark.delete" role="standard command" Update="No">Delete</GUIRef> on the toolbar</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Select an item, and click <GUIRef href="/baanerp/stcommands/stcommands#stp_mark.delete" role="standard command" Update="No">Delete</GUIRef> in the <GUIRef href="" role="menu">Edit</GUIRef> menu. To delete a range of items, click <GUIRef href="/baanerp/stcommands/stcommands#stp_global.delete" role="standard command">Delete a range of records</GUIRef> in the <GUIRef href="" role="menu">Edit</GUIRef> menu, and then select successively the first item and the last item of the range.</ListItem>
			</List>
			<List><ListIntro>If you delete items, also the following data is deleted for the items:</ListIntro>
				<ListItem>Production BOMs</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Routings</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Locations</ListItem>
				<ListItem>All cost price and costing details</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Classification data from the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/grt" role="module" Update="No">Product Classification (GRT)</GUIRef> module</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Item-based conversion factors</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Alternative items</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Item data for sales, purchase, service, warehousing, ordering, planning, <GUIRef href="/baanerp/qm" role="package">Quality Management</GUIRef>, and <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tp" role="package">Project</GUIRef>.</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Purchase item - business partner relations</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Pricing data (price books)</ListItem>
			</List>
			<List><ListIntro>In case of a generic item, also the following data is deleted for the item:</ListIntro>
				<ListItem>Features and options</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Product features by generic item</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Generic item data</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Generic BOMs</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Generic routing</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Generic price lists</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Constraints</ListItem>
			</List>
		</GeneralSection>
		<RelatedTopics><SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
			<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/tc/onlinemanual/000330" role="manual">To set up the item data</Link>
			</RelTopic>
			<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000380" role="manual">Overview of reference designators</Link>
			</RelTopic>
			<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000390" role="manual">Integration Manufacturing and Document Management</Link>
			</RelTopic>
		</RelatedTopics>
	</HelpTopic>
	<Fields><FieldHelp ID="tcibd001.item"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Item</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc><Link href="/baanerp/tc/glossary/glossary#000001" role="glossary">item</Link>
			</FuncDesc>
			<SimpleSection><Paragraph><Link href="/baanerp/tc/glossary/glossary#000069" role="glossary">Segmented</Link> item codes consist of a project-code segment and an item-base segment (the item code). You can define the item code segmentation in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/ibd/tcibd0500m000" role="session">Item Code Segmentation (tcibd0500m000)</GUIRef> session.</Paragraph>
			</SimpleSection>
			<Note><SectionTitle>Note</SectionTitle>
				<Paragraph>If the item is a generic item, the following characters are not allowed in the item code:</Paragraph>
				<Paragraph><Code>% ' " ^ \ ! @ # $ &amp; * ( ) | / ; ~ ` ? { } [ ] &lt; &gt;</Code>
				</Paragraph>
				<Paragraph>The reason is that object files that are generated for constraints in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/pcf" role="module">Product Configuration</GUIRef> module cannot contain these characters.</Paragraph>
			</Note>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="tcibd001.kitm"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Item Type</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>The item's default <Link href="/baanerp/tc/glossary/glossary#000006" role="glossary">item type</Link>.</FuncDesc>
			<AllowedValues><SectionTitle>Allowed values</SectionTitle>
				<Paragraph><Link href="/baanerp/tc/domains/kitm" role="domain">Item Type (a.k.a. kind of item)</Link>
				</Paragraph>
			</AllowedValues>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="act.kitm"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Actual Item Type</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>The item type at the current date and time.</FuncDesc>
			<SimpleSection><Paragraph>The item type that you select in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/ibd/tcibd0101s000" role="session">Item - General (tcibd0101s000)</GUIRef> session is the items default item type. To support make or buy scenarios for the same item, you can temporarily change the item type of purchased and manufactured items in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/ibd/tcibd0510m000" role="session">Date-Effective Item Data (tcibd0510m000)</GUIRef> session.</Paragraph>
			</SimpleSection>
			<AllowedValues><SectionTitle>Allowed values</SectionTitle>
				<Paragraph><Link href="/baanerp/tc/domains/kitm" role="domain">Item Type (a.k.a. kind of item)</Link>
				</Paragraph>
			</AllowedValues>
			<RelatedTopics><SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
				<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/tc/onlinemanual/000322" role="manual">Date-effective item data</Link>
				</RelTopic>
			</RelatedTopics>
		</FieldHelp>
	</Fields>
	<FormCommands><CommandHelp ID="tcibd0120m000"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Reference Designators by Item</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>Click to start the <Link href="/baanerp/tc/ibd/tcibd0120m000" role="session">Reference Designators by Item (tcibd0120m000)</Link> session to view, define, or maintain <Link href="/baanerp/ti/glossary/glossary#100110" role="glossary">reference designators</Link> that are linked to an item.</FuncDesc>
		</CommandHelp>
	</FormCommands>
</Session>
