Hierarchy
SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component⤷
BC-SRV-ADR (Application Component) Address Management/Business Address⤷
SZAD (Package) SAP Technology - Business Services: Address Management
IMG Activity
| ID | SIMG_ADDRESSES_SA13 | Maintain Name Formatting Rules |
| Transaction Code | S_BCE_68000289 | IMG Activity: SIMG_ADDRESSES_SA13 |
| Created on | 19981207 | |
| Customizing Attributes | SIMG_ADDRESSES_SA13 | Maintain Name Formatting Rules |
| 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 | 19990331 |
| SAP Release Created in |
