If you need to introduce additional fields to objects that were delivered with minimal fields, you can add a characteristic type for each field you want to capture. Using the characteristic type approach allows you to add new fields to objects without changing the database. There are some pages in the system that support a generic list of characteristics. For those pages, no changes are required for users to view and maintain characteristics. Other pages are business object oriented pages and their maintenance and display are controlled by the UI maps defined for the business objects. In those pages the display / maintenance of the characteristics are driven by the design of the business object and its maps.
The topics in this section describe how to setup a characteristic type.
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