SAP Message RD017 - This characteristic is not appropriate as a partitioning characteristic

Diagnosis
For the field name for partitioning, you must enter a selectedcharacteristic used in the segment table and not hidden for CO-PA. Thefield you entered/selected is not an active characteristic in thesegment table.

Procedure
Enter a characteristic from the section "Characteristics in the segmenttable" as the field name for partitioning.
Note: You can choose one of these characteristics by double-clickingit.