Compounding

compounding attribute are nothing jst a combinaiton of two char to make a unique one i mean none of them is existant without the other or in other words there is no meaning if the are separated

Typically in a organization the employee id are allocated in serial like say 10001, 10002 and so on. Lets your Organization comes out with a new employee id scheme where the employee id for each location would start with 101. So the employee id starting for india would be india/101 and for US would be US/101. Now note that the employee india/101 and US/101 are different. Now if someone has to contact employee 101 he needs to know the location without which he cannot uniquely identify the employee. Hence in this case location is the compunding attribute.

A maximum of 13 characteristics can be compounded for an InfoObject. the characteristic values can also have a maximum of 60 characters. This includes the concatenated value, meaning the total length of the characteristic in compounding plus the length of the characteristic itself.