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Change Material Characteristics#

🔒 Material.ChangeCharacteristics

Overview#

This operation is used to change the material characteristic values of a Material.

Setup#

No special setup is required other than to meet the preconditions of the transaction.

Preconditions#

  • The Material is Active.
  • Either the Material has Characteristics or the associated Product has Characteristics.
  • The Material is a TopMost Material and it is not In Process.

Sequence of Steps#

The Change Material Characteristics wizard can be called from the Change button on the top ribbon or directly from the Characteristics section of the Material page.

  1. You have three action buttons as follows:

    • Synchronize - removes characteristics that are associated with the Material but are not in the Product, and adds characteristics that should be in the Material because they are in the Product (the order of the Material characteristics will follow the order of the Product characteristics).

      Info

      For more information, see Manage Characteristics.

    • Add Missing - adds missing characteristics to the end of the list of already existing characteristics.

    • Remove - removes one or all of the characteristics.

  2. Change the value of the existing Material Characteristics. For this operation, you must provide a value for each mandatory characteristic (marked with an ), either by entering manually as free text or by selecting a predefined value from the specified Source Lookup Table.

    Screenshot showing the UI to change material characteristics, highlighting fields marked with ":co..." indicating mandatory input required.

  3. Select Change to complete the operation.