Hierarchy
SAP_FIN (Software Component) SAP_FIN⤷
FIN-FSCM-CLM-CM-CM (Application Component) Basic Functions⤷
FTE (Package) Bank accounting: External payment information
Basic Data
| Data Element | VGEXT_EB |
| Short Description | External business transaction |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | VGEXT_EB | |
| Data Type | CHAR | Character String |
| Length | 27 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 27 | |
| Value Table | T028G |
Further Characteristics
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| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | Ext trans |
| Medium | 15 | External trans |
| Long | 20 | External transaction |
| Heading | 4 | ExtT |
Documentation
Use
The SAP system needs the External Transaction to identify the business transaction. The SAP system converts the typical bank transactions to internal system transactions (meaning posting rules), that in turn trigger certain posting transactions.
The system can determine the external transaction from the following data specified by the bank:
- Business transaction code
- Text key
- Posting key
If no business transaction code is supplied, the system uses the text key or posting text.
In Customizing, you assign different external transactions to a transaction category.
Activities
In Customizing you define the business transaction codes (external transactions) that are used by the bank format-specific to specify the reason for a payment transaction in the bank statement.
Note
If the bank uses an external transaction that you have not defined in Customizing, the system terminates processing the bank statement.
To make sure the processing of the bank statement is not terminated, you can define the external transaction UNALLOCATED in the Customizing activity Make Global Settings for Electronic Bank Statement.
Example
If the bank makes the bank statements available in SWIFT MT940 format, then the external transaction involves a business transaction code.
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20110901 |
| SAP Release Created in | 46C |
