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Logic of default attribute at Dispute Case creation screen
Users can create a dispute case in the FI document display mode like FB03 or FBL5N by including the document displayed in the dispute case and assign the dispute case to a processor. Dispute case attributes like Processor and Responsible person will be populated automatically at the creation screen, it’s SAP standard.
In this article, I will show the key function module been used to fetch those dispute attributes to better understanding the FSCM mechanism and answer user query or enhancement preparation.
Key functions involved in dispute creation
The Function Code triggered at PAI(User command) for the dispute case creation button at FBL5N is ‘ +CUS05‘.
The main function module to create a dispute case is: “FDM_AR_DOC_DISPUTE_BUILD”. It will use FUNCTION ‘FDM_AR_DOC_UI_PREPARE’ to get a dispute data from UI (for current example which is FBL5N) as lt_dispute_data_ui and put it into FM: ‘FDM_AR_DOC_UI_PERFORM’ to fetch other attributes like the processor.
Inside FM: ‘FDM_AR_DOC_UI_PERFORM’, it calls another key FM: “FDM_AR_UI_DISPUTE_CREATE” to decide to create a new dispute or copy from another dispute.
Logic to fetch Dispute attributes like processor
The field attribute is a table type that contains all the attributes value and populated by method “CONSTRUCTOR” of cl_dispute_data_ui. You can find it stored at ls_dispute_data at FM: FDM_AR_UI_DISPUTE_CREATE.
Here we can find the big FM ‘FDM_AR_CUST_GET_ALL_DEFAULTS’ to get attributes including case type, Category, Status, Reason code, Priority, External Reference, Processor, Coordinator, Responsible, planned end date, Case Title, etc.
Take the field ‘processor’ as an example it uses function module ‘FDM_AR_CUST_GET_DEF_PROCESSOR’ to fetch default processor.
- get the accounting clerk number from KNB1/LFB1 by BP number and company code accordingly;
- get the user name from T001S as a processor by company code and accounting clerk number.
Conclusion:
By going through the process for the popup dispute creation screen, we clearly understand how dispute case default attribute been populated and how to customize them freely.
Sometimes I search key combination for FSCM at Google and SAP, just very few pages listed even zero results. That’s why I write an unpopular topic like this one : p
Nice article. How to set default values for custom fields .
Anuj Kaul
To achieve that, maybe you can try this: implement the BAdI FDM_USER_SCREEN which is for customer-defined subscreen.
Very nice article.
How to add custom fields to Dispute case creation screen? Steps to add new fields will be helpful?
Thanks
Suganya
Suganya Rangarajan
The main idea is:
Maybe I'll try to write one later : p
As your wish. check here : )
Thanks for your new blog. It was very helpful.