How to Create Product Attributes and set up Views

Summary

 To enhance Product with any standard or custom attributes, one make use of Product Set Type. These set types then can be assigned to the hierarchies.

Author: Harshit Kumar 

Company:   Accenture
Created on:   24th Apr, 2010
Author(s) Bio:  Harshit Kumar is working with Accenture on Projects involving CRM Implementations. 

Procedure:

Step 1. Create New Set Type - Set Type can be created by making use of transaction type COMM_ATTRSET. The detail are as shown in the figure below.









Step 2:  Now this newly created  settype has to be assigned to a Product Hierarchy. This can be achived by making use of the transaction COMM_HIERARCHY. The assignment is also shown below.






Step3: Generate the View for the Set Type created by making use of the transaction CRMM_UIU_PRODGEN (CRMM_UIU_PROD_GEN in 7.0 and EHP1) with the Set Type , Enhancement Set & Overview Page Component. The same is also shown below.




Step 4: Create the UI configuration. Use transaction CRMM_UIU_PROD_CONFIG to create the UI COnfiguration fo rthe Set Type. The details should be put as shown below.

Once all the steps are done.  Open the UI Compoent PRD01OV by BSP_WD_CMPWB and click on PRD01OV/MaterialOV view. Under the COnfiguration Tab you will see your set Type View which can be dragged to displayed assignment blocks. Login to CRM Web UI and the new assignment block would be visible on the Overview Page.