SAP Message C1052 - Characteristic & contains characters that are not allowed

Diagnosis
You have chosen a name for a characteristic that contains charactersthat are not allowed.

Procedure
The following naming conventions apply to characteristics:

  • You can only use letters from A - Z, figures from 0 - 9, and the
  • underscore character.
    You can also use hyphens in characteristic names. However, if you doso, you can only refer to the characteristic in object dependencieswith the keyword SKEY. You enter the characteristic name in quotemarks.
    Example: SKEY 'EXT-COLOR'
    • The first character of the name must be a letter.

    • The characteristic name cannot consist of only figures.

    • You cannot use umlauts.