You can deactivate the 'fioeld-by-field' SPA/GPA attribute by using selection variants. Create a new variant for this. When you save this variant, you can control the SPA/GPA attribute in the field attributes. If a user chooses this variant, then the system also only uses the values that are stored in the variant.
To use a variant already when starting the transaction, create a new transaction and start the list display report (for example, RM06EN00) using a user-defined variant.
From Release 4.6B the variant used last is saved as inital variant. If you execute the transaction with a selection variant, then the system stores this variant for the specific user and for the specific transaction. If you execute the respective transaction again, the system automatically chooses the selection variant which you used the last time again (see Note 326221).
For the document overview, you have the option to use customer enhancement MEQUERY1 to execute own standard variants (see Note 377180).