Standard Characteristics in CCM

Hi,
I am trying (unsuccessfully) to find something that provides a brief description on what the standard characteristics available in CCM are used for. Most are pretty straight forward but if anyone could point me in the direction of any documentation they now of that'd be great.
Thanks
Chris

Hi Chris,
You can have a look here :
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_ccm20/helpdata/en/index.htm
Kind regards,
Yann

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HI,
Use "Metadata Repository" to get more ioformation about these info objects.
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Hi Antoinette,
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I was not active on SDN for some time hence did not see yr thread.
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1. List of all Standard CCM 2.0 Characteristics
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Hi Grace,
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CHECK CME CUSTOMIZING & MDF PARTS
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Data type 4688C4C9FE4702CE00000000AC140239_ 0000000001 does not exist
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07/03/2007 13:45:03 (EST): >>> End: Publication of catalog model
07/03/2007 13:45:03 (EST): >>> Start: Publication of catalog content
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07/03/2007 13:45:03 (EST): Package 0001 is being transferred to Update Manager
07/03/2007 13:45:03 (EST): Package 0001 is being updated locally
Catalog update was terminated
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Local update of package 0001 has failed
07/03/2007 13:45:04 (EST): >>> End: Processing of confirmation message for package 0001
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Local publication of catalog /CCM/MASTER_CATALOG has failed
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Hi
Please go through the SAP OSS Notes below ->
Note 866547 Error when accessing TREX server
Note 878316 - Missing standard characteristics in CCM2.0 catalogs
Note 910814 Lowercase letters in ID
Note 734168 - Error during initialization of characteristics & data types
Note 730047 CME-Customizing check
Note 937756 Runtime improvement when using view rules
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Note 904420 Tolerating inconsistencies in the view relationship
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Regards
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