Indirect costs allocated to specific activity type

I am trying to take costs from an indorect cost centre, and based on cost element groups, post it into a specific (production) cost centre activity type.
(I know the best way to do this is with KSCB, but the users entered thewrong master data in KP26, so it is either finding another solution, or recreate all the cost centres, with everything that that implies....)
Currently I am assessing using separate secondaries for each activity type. But because they are secondaries, I cannot get them included into specific activities via KP06 at the direct production cost centre. Alternatively I am trying to get the spliiting to link the secondary to a specific activity type, but I am not getting that working.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Distributions rather than assessment?

Now that I have actually assigned the splitting structure to the cost centre, it works a lot better....

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