Equipment
Equipment, equipment partners, long texts and warranties: what MDM maintains, the row actions and SAP operations, the rules SAP applies and the differences on the Private Edition.
Draft brief for authors. The family overview (hand-written) plus the generated pages below.
Overview contains: the four objects and how they relate (Linked Objects); what MDM maintains per object (Equipment: Create, Change and eight SAP operations; Partner: Create, Change, Delete; Long Text and Warranty: Create, Change); the SAP interface in the SAP background callout; what is not offered (classification, documents, measuring points).
Source in the product repository: docs/help-portal/equipment.md §1, db/staging.cds ST100–ST115, docs/staging-fields/API_EQUIPMENT.json.
In this section
- Equipment: FieldsEvery field of an equipment MDM maintains, with type and length, whether it is a key, required or sent only on Create, its value help and its availability per edition.
- Equipment: Row Actions and SAP OperationsCreate, Change and the eight SAP operations of an equipment: what each needs in the row, what SAP requires, and which operation undoes which.
- Equipment: Rules SAP AppliesWhat SAP S/4HANA Cloud allows and refuses for equipment, in plain words, and what MDM does about each rule.
- Equipment: Private Edition DifferencesWhat differs for equipment on SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, per recorded release: operations not offered, longer fields, partner rows that cannot be deleted, numbers with leading zeros.
- Equipment Partner: Fields and ActionsThe partner rows of an equipment: their fields, and the Create, Change and Delete actions, with the partner counter SAP assigns.
- Equipment Long Text: Fields and RulesThe long text of an equipment: its fields, Create and Change, and how SAP treats line breaks and the language.
- Equipment Warranty: Fields and ActionsThe warranty data of an equipment: its fields and the Create and Change actions.
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