SAP ABAP Data Element AUDAT (Document Date (Date Received/Sent))
Hierarchy
BBPCRM (Software Component) BBPCRM
   CRM (Application Component) Customer Relationship Management
     CRM_APPLICATION (Package) All CRM Components Without Special Structure Packages
       VBAS (Package) Application development R/3 sales master data
Basic Data
Data Element AUDAT
Short Description Document Date (Date Received/Sent)  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type DATUM    
Data Type DATS   Date field (YYYYMMDD) stored as char(8) 
Length 8    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 10    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
Search Help: Name    
Search Help: Parameters    
Parameter ID   
Default Component name DOC_DATE   
Change document    
No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 Doc. Date 
Medium 15 Document Date 
Long 20 Document Date 
Heading 10 Doc. Date 
Documentation

Definition

The date on which you want the sales document (the sales order, for example) to become effective for sales management purposes.

Use

When you want to generate a list of sales documents or sales statistics, the document date you enter determines which sales documents are selected. You can define the document date to meet the needs of your organization.

Example

For sales orders, for example, you can define the document date as the date when the order actually arrives at your offices. Alternatively, you could define it as the date when the order was written up by a field sales representative.

Procedure

The system proposes the current date. You can change it manually in the sales document.

Supplementary Documentation - AUDAT 0001

Use

The system proposes the current date, but you can overwrite it with a date in the future or the past. If you enter a date in the past, the system gives a warning before you can continue. You can use this date to select a list of sales documents or to generate statistical data.

Example

Here are several examples of how this date can be defined as the date on which

  • The incoming sales document is date-stamped
  • The sales document is written by a field sales representative

History
Last changed by/on SAP  19991102 
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