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Value category

Value category customizing is essential for PS reporting (see note 676123; following lines

are quotes from this note).

Value category customizing

!n the project information database the "alue categor# pla#s the role$ that cost elements$ commitment items an% statistical

&e# figures ha"e in the controlling ta'les$ reportwriter reports report painter reports an% line item reports. *he "alue categor#

customizing controls this re&e#ing process from the controlling ta'les to the pro+ect information %ata'ase. !t is essential,

*his customizing must 'e set up correctl# an% completel#. -therwise #ou will get unpre%icta'l# wrong "alues in the hierarch#

reports$ the structure o"er"iew$ earne% "alue anal#sis an% in the pro+ect planning 'oar%.

Heading 1: * Project iInformation Database*

*he pro+ect information %ata'ase ta'le RPSCO is the "alue ta'le (no quantities,) that ser"es as common %ata'ase for

o /ierarch# 0eports

o Structure -"er"iew

o Progress nal#sis (earne% "alue)

o Pro+ect Planning oar%.


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!t contains "alues from controlling (costs$ re"enues$ commitment) an% PS cash management (epenses$ receipts$ cash

commitment$ planne% pa#ments ...).

4or earne% "alue anal#sis ta'le RPSQT contains the necessar# quantities. *he "alues in this ta'le occur from statistical &e#

figure recor%s in controlling. *hat wa# #ou can %esign hierarch# reports that are a'le to report on all these "alues in one single

report.

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*he "alue categor# customizing is %one using transaction 55. s state% in note 676123

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1. Please use transaction 55 to chec& #our "alue categor# customizing.

ll re% 89 #ellow lights shown there ha"e to 'e eliminate% '# correcting an% completing #our "alue categor# customizing. !n

or%er to %o that$ please re"iew #our customizing following these gui%elines

a) :ach cost elementcommitment itemstat. &e# figure /S *- : SS!8:9 eactl# once to a "alue categor#. ssigning

them to more or less than one "alue categor# will lea% to unpre%icta'le results.

') *his is necessar# ::8$ !4 8* *- S:: those "alues. !n that case #ou can 'loc& the up%ate to ta'le

0PS5-. *o 'loc& the up%ate please create an assignment line to a "alue categor# an% acti"ate the ?suppress? in%icator on the

assignment %etail screen.

c) -nl#

5ost elements of the same cost element t#pe

5ommitment items of the same item categor# an%

Statistical &e# figures of the same unit of measure an% the same &e# figure categor# are allowe% to 'e assigne% to the same

"alue categor#. -ther an%or mie% assignments will lea% to unpre%icta'le results li&e miing costs an% re"enues in columns or

rows,


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4or 'eing a'le to %o that easil#$ please consi%er the following

Please use alwa#s the same num'er of %igits for all cost elements an% re"enue elements to ha"e a reser"e e"entuall# 1 or

two %igits more than #ou initiall# nee%. *he fiel% for cost element is an alphanumeric fiel% an% is leicall# sorte%. !f #ou %o not%o it that wa#$ #ou will ha"e pro'lems %efining inter"als. So please use the same num'er of %igits for all cost elements. *he

same is for commitment items an% statistical &e# f igures.

*his setup shoul% 'e chec&e% regularl# to ma&e sure$ that all "alues are up%ate% to the pro+ect information %ata'ase in the

correct wa#, *here shoul% 'e a special focus on newl# create% cost elements commitment

items statistical &e# figures.


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