How To Fix COM_CATEGORY018 - Enter a hierarchy to which category &1 belongs

COM_CATEGORY018 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: COM_CATEGORY - Category

• Message number: 018

• Message text: Enter a hierarchy to which category &1 belongs

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COM_CATEGORY018 - Details

• The SAP error message COM_CATEGORY018 indicates that a hierarchy must be specified for a category in the context of SAP's classification system, particularly in the area of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) or similar modules where categories and hierarchies are used to organize data.
  
  Cause:
  This error typically occurs when:
  
  A category is being created or modified without an associated hierarchy.
  The system requires that every category must belong to a specific hierarchy for proper classification and organization.
  The hierarchy that the category is supposed to belong to has not been defined or is not correctly linked.
  
  
  Solution:
  To resolve the COM_CATEGORY018 error, you can follow these steps:
  
  
  Check Hierarchy Assignment:
  
  Navigate to the classification system in SAP.
  Verify if the category in question (denoted by &1 in the error message) is assigned to a hierarchy.
  If it is not assigned, you will need to assign it to the appropriate hierarchy.
  
  
  
  Create or Modify Hierarchy:
  
  If the required hierarchy does not exist, you may