Why I could not see Location assignment block in Product overview page

[JerryWang]

I have assigned relationship PRDLOCS to product category MAT_HAWA in CRM:



And I create a product based on category MAT_HAWA. To my surprise, I could not see Location assignment block as expected.

I use the following test code in my utility class to list what exactly relationships assigned to my product:



In the list result, PRDLOC is NOT there ( only PRDLOI ).



So I begin to debug function module COM_PRCAT_IL_REL_GET_RELTYPES:



I could see PRDLOC is selected successfully from database table, so it must be filtered out somewhere else.



Soon I found there is a special check routine for PRDLOC:





It will call its dedicated check function module:



This check function module will check whether MARC and MARC_KEY is registered for adapter object MATERIAL in tcode R3AC1.

After I add these two missing entries,



The expected relationship PRDLOC is now available for my product.



And finally I could see the Location assignment block in Overview page.