SAP ABAP IMG Activity SIMG_CFMENUORFBOBC4 (Define Field Status Variants)
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     ⤷ FB0C (Package) Financial Accounting customers
IMG Activity
ID SIMG_CFMENUORFBOBC4 Define Field Status Variants  
Transaction Code S_ALR_87003957   IMG Activity: SIMG_CFMENUORFBOBC4 
Created on 19981222    
Customizing Attributes SIMG_CFMENUORFBOBC4   Define and Process Field Status Variants and Groups 
Customizing Activity SIMG_CFMENUORFBOBC4   Define and Process Field Status Variants and Groups 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name SIMG_CFMENUORFBOBC4    

In this activity you can define and edit field status variants and groups. You group several field status groups together in one field status variant. You assign the field status variants to a company code in the activity Assign Company Code to Field Status Variants. This allows you to work with the same field status groups in any number of company codes.

You can also define and process field status groups. You must define a field status group in the company code-specific area of each G/L account. The field status group determines which fields are ready for input, which are required entry fields, and which are hidden during document entry. Bear in mind that additional account assignments (i.e. cost centers or orders) are only possible if data can be entered in the corresponding fields.

Standard settings

Field status variant 0001 is entered for company code 0001 in the standard SAP software. Field status groups are already defined for this variant.

Note

You cannot attach a field status to some fields, such as those in the document header. You can, however, switch between required and optional entry field designations in the document type for some of these header fields.

The field status group you enter in the reconciliation accounts affects postings to the related customer or vendor accounts. You cannot enter a field status group in the customer or vendor accounts. Field status groups are determined for customer and vendor accounts from their respective reconciliation accounts, via the G/L account number in their master records.

There are other factors, besides the field status group itself, which have an influence on the field status. Among these are:

  • the field status defined for the posting key.

    The status "optional entry field" was assigned to posting keys 40 and 50 in the standard system. These are the standard posting keys for G/L account postings. The "optional entry field" status has no effect on the field status.

  • Specifications for the document type.

    You can specify here that a reference number and document header text must always be entered, for example.

Recommendation

Designate field status via the field status groups in the G/L accounts. This allows you a more account-specific screen layout. You cannot differentiate by posting key, since there are only two such keys for postings to G/L accounts.

The situation with reconciliation accounts is different. You do not make any differentiated field status definition via the master record for these special G/L accounts. You use the debit and credit posting keys instead.

Activities

  1. Create new field status variants using Edit -> New entries . You can also use the copy function to create new field status variants. To do this, select Edit -> Copy as . When copying field status variants, the accompanying field status groups are also copied.
  2. Look at the standard field status groups.
  3. Find out which fields on the entry screens should be

    • ready for input
    • required entry fields
    • hidden for the G/L accounts in your company.

      You do not make this definition for each account, but rather for groups of accounts. This is why you may want to adapt the field status groups included in the standard system.

  4. If necessary, change the standard field status groups, or define your own for each field status variant.
  5. You can delete field status variants that are no longer required via Edit -> Delete . The accompanying field status groups will also be deleted.

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 203   Establish Master Data 
Mandatory / Optional 1   Mandatory activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 1   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_CFMENUORFBOBC4 0 HLA0006520 O HLA0006511 O HLA0006500  
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_T004V C - View cluster SM34 FI_OBC4 Define Field Status Variants 
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20040226 
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