Material Characteristics
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Using material classifications in SAP S/4HANA, you can add material characteristics, for example physical dimensions of a material, its color or brand. Material characteristics from SAP S/4HANA can be used to extend web store search functionality, so customers will be able to search for a product by its characteristics. They can be also used for facets to filter the catalog by material characteristics, and shown on the product list and product details pages as product specifications.
You can add product specifications to the product details page using the Product specifications content element.
Add Material Characteristics in SAP
You can add material characteristics in the material master data, on the Classification tab.
In the Classification window, you can add characteristics of a material and their values.
Map SAP Material Characteristics to Sana
Those classes which you are using to add material characteristics in SAP S/4HANA must be also added to the Product Classification Mapping table.
Step 1: Open the Field Mapping app in the SAP Fiori Launchpad. Select your webstore.
Step 2: Use the Product Classification Mapping table to define the classes you are using to add material characteristics in SAP S/4HANA. To do this, select the necessary class. If you use different classes to add material characteristics in SAP S/4HANA, all required classes can be added to this table.
Only material characteristics of the classes added to this table will be available in Sana Admin for indexing to configure webstore search, facetted filters and product specifications.
When characteristics are added to the materials in SAP S/4HANA, you can open Sana Admin, click: Setup > Search & filters, and extend your web store search capabilities with material characteristics. You can add material characteristic fields from SAP S/4HANA to the filter and keyword fields and update product index to retrieve material characteristics from SAP S/4HANA.
For more information, see Keyword Fields and Filter Fields.
You can also use these fields to filter the catalog in the webstore using facets.
In Sana Admin click: Setup > Search & filters > Facetted filters. Using facets, a customer can filter the products in the webstore, for example by color, size or brand. The facetted filter is shown in the webstore on the left of the product list and search results pages.
For more information about search settings, see Webstore Search and Product Filtering.
Material characteristics from SAP S/4HANA can be used not only to extend your webstore search capabilities, but also to show product specifications in the Sana webstore.
For more information, see Product Specifications.
Translate Material Characteristics
The field names of the material characteristics can be translated to different languages in SAP S/4HANA. If your webstore is multi-lingual, you can show the field names of the material characteristics in different languages in your Sana webstore.
Step 1: To add the field names of the material characteristics in different languages, call the transaction Characteristics Management (CT04).
Step 2: In the Characteristic field, enter the technical name of the material characteristic.
You can find the technical names of the material characteristics by executing the GetEntityFields request either using Debug ERP request in Sana Admin or Manual Process Requests in SAP S/4HANA.
Step 3: On the Descriptions tab, select a language and add a translation of the material characteristic.
