Hierarchy
SAP_APPL (Software Component) Logistics and Accounting⤷
MM-PUR-PO (Application Component) Purchase Orders⤷
WIND (Package) Document index processing
Basic Data
| Data Element | B_BEDAT |
| Short Description | Document Date Header or Item (Depending on Document Categ.) |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | DATUM | |
| Data Type | DATS | Date field (YYYYMMDD) stored as char(8) |
| Length | 8 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 10 | |
| Value Table |
Further Characteristics
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| Default Component name | ||
| Change document | ||
| No Input History | ||
| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | Doc. date |
| Medium | 15 | Document date |
| Long | 20 | Document date |
| Heading | 10 | Doc. date |
Documentation
Definition
Date on which the document (purchase order, pricing document, etc.) was created.
Use
This date is used to limit the selection of documents that are to be processed during creation of the worklist (see example). A single date or a time interval can be entered as the validity date.
Example
The examples show the possible relationships between the validity periods of the document data and the entered validity date. In Case 2, for reasons of clarity, no actual dates are given for the validity periods of the document items.
Case 1: Entry of a single date
1.7.2000
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Document items 1/2: |---------| |----------|
1.1. 30.5. 1.8 30.9.
This document or these document items are not taken into consideration.
Document item 3: |------------------|
1.6. 31.8.
This document or this document item is taken into consideration.
Case 2: Entry of an interval
1.6. 31.7.
|-------------|
Document item 1: |-------|
This document or this document item is not taken into consideration.
Document item 2: |-----------------|
This document or this document item is taken into consideration.
Document item 3: |----|
This document or this document item is taken intor consideration.
Document item 4: |---------------|
This document or this document item is taken into consideration.
Document item 5: |------------|
This document or this document item is not taken into consideration.
Supplementary Documentation - B_BEDAT 0001
Use
You can limit the automatic document adjustment process to documents (purchase orders, scheduling agreements, pricing documents etc.) whose date lies within a certain period.
Dependencies
With regard to purchase orders and scheduling agreements, note that the documents can subsequently be extended by the addition of new items for whose document conditions the document date may not be very meaningful.
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20000211 |
| SAP Release Created in |
