SAP Note 17094 - Main asset number text

Symptom:

Since Release 2.1 there has been a text for the main asset number. What is it used for? How is it used?
Keywords: ANLH, ANLHTXT, asset subnumber summary

Solution

If you structure your assets strongly using subnumbers (for example a large production machine or a building), you can assign a special text to the construct as a whole next to the individual description of each part (represented by a subnumber) with the text for the asset main number.
Do do this, you must create the corresponding field during master record maintenance.
As a result, all summaries (represented in the individual transactions by subnumber '*') immediately contain this text as in reporting (the request 'only main asset numbers').
If you do not want to use this option, you have the following
possibilities:

• Deactivate screen group '07' in the screen layout rule for asset classes

• Do not enter any different text for the text for the main asset number.

In both cases, the text of the first subnumber (normally '0000') is put into the text for the main asset number according to programming logic and shown as described above.