Creating SAF Concepts
Use the SAF Concept activities (25.3.7.1) to create, view, modify, and delete SAF concepts. Changing concepts has the following restrictions:
• You cannot delete a system SAF concept. You cannot delete a user-defined SAF concept if it has already been used in a transaction.
• You cannot create system concepts.
• The only value you can modify for a system concept is the Active setting.
• You cannot deactivate a concept if it is linked to an active SAF structure.
SAF Concept Create
Field Descriptions
SAF Concept Code
Enter a code (maximum 20 characters) that identifies an SAF concept.
SAF Concept Description
Enter a brief description (maximum 40 characters) of the concept code. This field is mandatory; the description cannot be blank.
You can optionally enter descriptions in more than one language. See
Introduction to QAD Enterprise Applications User Guide for more information on the Translation Option.
System.
When this read-only field is selected, this is a system concept; it cannot be deleted.
Active
Indicate if this is an active SAF concept.