Reference Characteristic

[Former Member]

Hello,

I have a characteristic infoObject 'Model Name' ZCOPAMDL.

It is a has listed as a 'Reference char.' 0MATERIAL.

When I execute a BEx Query that has both of these infoObjects they get displayed, however both the Key and the Text are different? I though that that data was shared between characteristics that are 'Reference'

When I look at the Text tables in both infoObjects they are exactly the same, so I am confused as to why the displayed key and text is actually different when i run the Bex Query.

Can anyone explain what I am missing?

Thanks,

Nick

[Former Member]

Hi Nick,

It is possible that both these chars are displaying different values becasue that depends on your transactional data.

[Former Member]

Nick,

if we create any infoobject with reference, it will share the metadata. Same table will be used to store the data. we can define the transactional for these 2 objects differentsly.

Nagesh.

[Former Member]

its very much interesting to know how these data will be different with transactional data.

can you please eloborate on this?

[Former Member]

Well, like we have 0COUNTRY and then 2 other InfoObjects created as reference to it: Customer's country and Seller's country. So although the list of countries is common between all the objects, but depending on the business transaction, the Seller may be in the US and Customer may be in Germany.

Hope this helps...

[Former Member]

hi bhanu,

Good example and thankx...