SAP ABAP Data Element MEMORYTYPE (Category of Incompleteness)
Hierarchy
BBPCRM (Software Component) BBPCRM
   SRM-EBP (Application Component) Enterprise Buyer
     BBP_APPLICATION (Package) Structure Package EBP
       ME (Package) Application development R/3 Purchasing
Basic Data
Data Element MEMORYTYPE
Short Description Category of Incompleteness  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type MM_MEMORYTYPE    
Data Type CHAR   Character String 
Length 1    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 1    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
Search Help: Name    
Search Help: Parameters    
Parameter ID   
Default Component name MEMORYTYPE   
Change document    
No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 Category 
Medium 15 Incompl. Cat. 
Long 20 Incompleteness 
Heading 33 Category of Incompleteness 
Documentation

Use

You can save incomplete purchase orders and purchase requisitions in the system as follows:

  • Hold (H)
    You can store faulty or incomplete purchase orders and purchase requisitions in the SAP system using the Hold function. You can process further or complete purchase orders that are on hold at a later point in time.
  • Park (P)
    You can park documents if they contain the data necessary for posting in Materials Management. You use the parking function if the budget data is to be checked and saved at a later point in time.
  • Saved as complete
    These documents have been saved as complete.

Dependencies

You can save purchase requisitions and purchase orders in the following sequence:
Hold => Park => Save.
You can also directly park documents or directly save them as complete.
Note that you cannot subsequently park an already saved document. You cannot subsequently put a parked document on hold.

The following functions are not possible for documents that have been put on hold:

Example

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20100310 
SAP Release Created in 700