SAP ABAP IMG Activity ADRESSEN8 (Maintain Address Version Display Formats)
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 ADRESSEN8 Maintain Address Version Display Formats  
Transaction Code S_KFM_86000142   IMG: International Address Versions 
Created on 20000726    
Customizing Attributes ADRESSEN1   Attribute 203/OPTIONAL/Non-critical/ADDRESSES 
Customizing Activity SIMG_SAPA_ADR_VERS   Activate International Address Versions 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name SIMG_SAPA_ADR_VERS    

You can maintain more than one version of an address at the same time, so an address can be held in various character sets, such as Kanji characters and latin letters. For example, versions of customer addresses are maintained in the the customer master data screen using Extras -> Address versions....

The character sets must be activated in the system.

Example

  • The addresses are normally maintained in Japanese format (Kanji) in Japanese systems. The addresses of foreign business partners (e.g. USA) are also entered or printed in the English (international) format.
  • In an American system all addresses are entered in English format . The addresses of Japanese business partners or subsidiaries are also either also maintained and printed in Kanji format, or maintained mainly in Kanji and also in English format.

Requirements

Different address versions can be maintained if the application uses the central SAP address management (SAP address book) dialog functions.

This is the case, e.g. for customer and vendor master data in Release 4.5.

Address versions are not yet available for personnel master addresses (module HR), because they do not use the central SAP address management (SAP address book) functions in Release 4.5.

Standard settings

SAP delivers the following version keys:
As of 4.5:
I International
K Kanji (Japanese)
R Cyrillic
N Katakana (Japanese)
H Hangul (Korean)
As of 4.6C:
A Arabic
B Hebrew
C Chinese
G Greek
M Chinese trad.
As of SAP Web Application Server Release 6.20:
T Thai

The version keys are delivered inactive.

Recommendation

Activate the version keys required in your system.

If you need other versions not provided by SAP, you can create and activate your own entries in the customer name space (keys 0 - 9).

Activities

To activate delivered version keys, proceed as follows:

  1. Choose "Execute" to call the maintenance transaction.
  2. Select active for the versions which are to be used in your system.
  3. Save

To create version keys in the customer name space, proceed as follows:

  1. Call transaction SM30.
  2. Enter view name V_SAPTSADV and choose Maintain.
  3. Do not change the entries delivered by SAP.
  4. To create new entries, choose New entries.
  5. Make the desired entries in the customer name space.
  6. Mark active for the versions which are to be used in your system.
  7. Save.

Further notes

The maintenance function for address versions is not intended for different spellings in just two languages (city names, for example).

Instead, the maintenance function aims to enable different formats in different character sets (above all, for extended or double-byte code pages).

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 
Assigned Application Components
Documentation Object Class Documentation Object Name Current line number Application Component Application Component Name
SIMG SIMG_SAPA_ADR_VERS 0 HLB0006316 Address Management/Business Address 
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
V_TSADV V - View SM30 00000000 International Address Versions 
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20000726 
SAP Release Created in 462_10