Diagnosis
You want to assign the role'subassignment' tocharacteristic &v2&. This is only possible for dependentcharacteristics if the independent characteristic is also asubassignment or if it is fixed in the consolidationarea.
The independent characteristic &v3& has the role &v4& and is not fixedin the consolidation area.

System Response
The field catalog for databasis &v1& is inconsistent and cannot be saved.

Procedure
Change the role for characteristic &v3&, or do not use characteristicV2 as a subassignment.