SAP ABAP IMG Activity ADRESSEN7 (Maintain Name Formatting Rules)
Hierarchy
EA-FINSERV (Software Component) SAP Enterprise Extension Financial Services
   FIN-FSCM-TRM (Application Component) Treasury and Risk Management
     CFM_CUST (Package) CFM Customizing: Cross-Application
IMG Activity
ID ADRESSEN7 Maintain Name Formatting Rules  
Transaction Code S_KFM_86000141   IMG: Name Formats 
Created on 20000726    
Customizing Attributes ADRESSEN1   Attribute 203/OPTIONAL/Non-critical/ADDRESSES 
Customizing Activity SIMG_ADDRESSES_SA13   Maintain name formatting rules 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name SIMG_ADDRESSES_SA13    

The name components of natural persons are stored in several separate fields.

You can control how the name is formatted from out of the components according to country-specific rules. If you do not specify any rules, the system uses a standard setting.

Example

The name composition format DE 01 is defined as follows:

US 01 1 TITLE (form-of-address)
US 01 2 NAME_FIRST (first name)
US 01 3 PREFIX1 (name preposition)
US 01 4 NAME_LAST (last name)

The following fields are used for a business partner:

Form-of-address: Mr

First name: Rene

Name preposition: van de

Last name: Kerkhoff

Country for name format    DE

Name format    01

Using the rule DE 01, two formats are derived from these fields:

With form-of-address (TITLE): Mr Rene van de Kerkhoff
(The form-of-address text is language-dependent in this case; the language depends on the context)

Without form-of-address: Rene van de Kerkhoff
(languag-independent)

The version without form-of-address is stored redundantly by the Business Address Services.

The version without the form-of-address is used for name formatting for print. In addition, the form-of-address is issued according to country-dependent criteria in the address format, regardless of whether or where the form-of-address is entered in the name format rule.

The format with form-of-address defined here, is intended for list output.

Requirements

Standard settings

The standard system includes some name composition format templates.

Recommendation

In addition, enter the format that is the default format for your country in the field "Default Name Format" in the country settings.

When you maintain master data, the country for the name format is not taken from the address because an SAP business partner, for example, can have more than one address or even none at all.

Instead, you have to enter the country in the field "Country for Name Format" in the name fields of the person.

We recommend that you assign the users the user parameter NAMEFORMAT_COUNTRY. If this parameter is filled in the user master data, the corresponding country is then proposed in the field "Country for Name Format" when you create personal data (for SAP business partners, consumers in the customer master record, users, and so on).

Activities

Create the required name composition formats.

Further notes

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 203   Establish Master Data 
Mandatory / Optional 2   Optional activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 2   Non-critical 
Country-Dependency A   Valid for all countries 
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type C   Customizing Object 
Assigned objects
Customizing Object Object Type Transaction Code Sub-object Do not Summarize Skip Subset Dialog Box Description for multiple selections
NAMEFORMAT C - View cluster SA13 0000000000 Country-dependent name formats 
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20000726 
SAP Release Created in 462_10