Customizing switches are Customizing activities that allow you to execute new code and display the related user interface elements, such as new fields, buttons, or columns. Customizing switches affect the user interface and the business logic as follows:
* They call soft switch methods in the code, so that some sections of the code are only executed if the Customizing switch is active.
* The Customizing switch framework provides table columns where Customizing switches can be entered. This has the following effect:
* If the Customizing switch is active, the table entries assigned to the Customizing switch are taken into account at runtime.
* If the Customizing switch is inactive, the table entries assigned to the Customizing switch are ignored at runtime.
Activation of Customizing Switches : You can find a list of all Customizing switches in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server > Display Status of Customizing Switches . From here, you can also navigate to the Customizing activities where you activate or deactivate the Customizing switches. The documentation available with the Customizing activities provides further information, such as the initial status and the revertibility of the Customizing switch.
Deactivation of Customizing Switches : Most of the Customizing switches are revertible and can be deactivated. A Customizing switch is revertible if the following applies:
* The function switched on using the Customizing switch only affects the business process or user interface, but not the data that is written to the database.
* The function switched on using the Customizing switch does affect data written to the database, but you have not yet created a document with this function, so no data has yet been written to the database.
To find out whether a Customizing switch is revertible, see the documentation of the Customizing activity that you use to activate or deactivate the Customizing switch.
