SAP ABAP Data Element BU_TYPE (Business partner category)

Hierarchy

☛ SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component
   ⤷ BC-SRV-BP (Application Component) Business Partner Foundation
     ⤷ S_BUPA_GENERAL (Package) SAP Business Partner: Basic Components

Basic Data

Data Element	BU_TYPE
Short Description	Business partner category

Data Type

Category of Dictionary Type	D	Domain
Type of Object Referenced		No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type	BU_TYPE
Data Type	CHAR	Character String
Length	1
Decimal Places	0
Output Length	1
Value Table

Further Characteristics

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Parameter ID	BPY
Default Component name	PARTNERCATEGORY
Change document	☑
No Input History	☐
Basic direction is set to LTR	☐
No BIDI Filtering	☐

Field Label

	Length	Field Label
Short	10	Part. cat.
Medium	15	Partner cat.
Long	20	BP category
Heading	4	BPC

Documentation

Definition

Category under which a business partner is classified.

You can distinguish between the following business partner categories:

• Organization
• Natural person
• Group of natural persons or organizations

Use

The processing screens for the business partner categories are set up differently.

So, for example, the screen for an organization contains the field Legal form, but this is not needed in the screen for a natural person.

Procedure

Examples

Dependencies

History

Last changed by/on	SAP	20110908
SAP Release Created in