SAP Message C1871 - Characteristic cannot be shown

Diagnosis
There are several reasons why characteristics are hidden from thecharacteristic value assignment screen. For example:

  • In characteristics maintenance functions, you can define that a
  • characteristic is not shown on the characteristic value assignmentscreen.
    • Characteristics can be excluded from display by object dependencies.

    • The user can hide characteristics on the characteristic value
    • assignment screen.
      Characteristics that are hidden due to settings in characteristicsmaintenance functions or object dependencies cannot be shown by theuser. The user can only show hidden characteristics that were hidden bythe user originally.