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Create, Copy & Delete Payment Medium Formats on SAP S/4HANA
You can create and set up a new Payment Medium Formats if you need a custom file format or there are no formats available for a bank/country or region. The goal of this article is to explain to you the process of creating, copying or deleting Payment Medium Formats in detail.
Creating a Format
First of all, the user needs to be logged as independent cross-client. After that, call transaction OBPM1 SAP delivered Payment Medium Format. There are two ways to create a new Payment Medium Format
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- Choose New Entries
- Choose Copy As…
In both cases, start the name of the newly created Payment Medium Format with symbol slash (/). Please note that if you use symbol Z (as it was a rule in the past), the warning message appears.
… you can create a new and blank Payment Medium Format. After saving and re-opening newly customized Payment Medium Format, you can add an already existing Format Mapping via field ‘Deviating Format Tree’.
… you can copy an existing Payment Medium Format including the same functionality, such as its Format Mappings.
Deleting a Format
You can delete all those newly created Payment Medium Formats whose technical names start with slash symbol in transaction OBPM1.
Read more about Payment Process on SAP S/4HANA here.
Hi Tereza,
I have got a question regarding this new convention:
In both cases, start the name of the newly created Payment Medium Format with symbol slash (/). Please note that if you use symbol Z (as it was a rule in the past), the warning message appears.
Do you know if there is an official SAPNOTE for this?
Thanks a lot.
Christoph
Hi Christoph,
customer namespace defined for the format tables is /* (since 1999)
In case you create anything in Z* namespace it is an SAP modification in this case.
May I ask to which warning message do you refer to?
Best regards,
Michal
Hi Michal,
a lot of customers use "Z...formats" in their implementations.
I have seen that during my consulting activities and added also Z...formats.
But now I have learned that the slash is the correct symbol.
I refer to the message "Select a key from the allowed namespace."
It is mentioned under "Creating a format" by Tereza.
Thanks.
Christoph