SAP S/4HANA Cloud Key User Extensibility – Custom business object – Creating Code List Values - Part 2

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Extensibility Framework

 

Target Audience – Key Users of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP S/4HANA On-Premise and Developers

In this part of the blog series, we will now see how to create a custom code list for a custom business object and will go through all the steps. Please note that you should have the pre-requisites already in place as discussed in the part 1 of this blog series.

Let’s go through the steps and see how to create a custom code list value –

Once logged in you will arrive at your home page (Fiori Launchpad). Look for the tile ‘Custom Business Objects’.

Custom Business Objects tile

 

If you do not find it, then it would be under a custom group defined by your administrator. If you are still not able to find it, then use the search bar.

This should bring up the tile, as shown below

Custom Business Object app

Click on the tile and you would arrive inside the application. Inside, you would notice tab – Custom Business Objects. Under this tab you will find a list of previously created Custom Business Objects, if any.

Let us now think of a custom business object which can be used to store supplier information. This custom business object will have a parent node to store the basic supplier information and a sub-node to store supplier role information. The structure would look like below –

Root Node (Supplier)	Fields	Length / Data Type	Custom Code Lists
	Supplier ID	20 / Char	No
	Supplier First Name	30 / Char	No
	Supplier Last Name	30 / Char	No
	Supplier Account Group	4 / Char	Yes
	Supplier Country	20 /Char	No
Sub-Node (Role)	Supplier Role	10 / Char	Yes
	Role Valid From	Date	No
	Role Valid To	Date	No

As you can see in the last column, I am mentioning – Custom Code List. So, what is this?

Well, Custom Code Lists is simply a field type for a field in the CBO. It is like a reusable artifact that you can create and attach to the field. With this option, the user will get a fixed set of value help.

Let us first start with creating custom code list values for field Supplier Account Group and Supplier Role.

To do this, again in the search bar, type – Custom Reusable Elements. If you have already added it previously in the Launchpad, then it should be appearing like below

Custom Reusable Elements app

Click on the tile and go to the tab – Custom Code Lists and click on the ‘+’ icon

Custom Code List tab

 

Start with the General Information tab, where you would provide a name to the code list and length. For this example, we are taking the length as ‘3’

Defining a Custom Code List

Click on next tab Code Values and then click on the ‘+’ icon

Code Values

Enter some code values for this code list. For example, like below, we have provided 3 code values

 

Code Lists with Description

 

In the next tab, you can maintain the Translation for the for the code values. However, this is not mandatory.

Maintain Translations

Once this is done, click on button ‘Save and Publish’. This would publish the new code list and would be available for use later during custom business object creation.

Publish the changes

 

The status will be published if all goes through successfully.

CBO published successfully

Let us go ahead and create new custom code list – Supplier Role. Follow the same steps as described above and new Code Lists Values should look like below.

Supplier Role Node

Once done, Save and Publish to make the changes effective in the system.

This completes the steps required to create custom code list values that we will now use during creation of custom business object in the next blog.

Congratulations you have successfully understood the basics of creating custom code list values in SAP S/4HAHA.

Rohit Khan, S/4HANA Regional Implementation Group

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Click below for the Part 3 this blog series.

Part 1: Introduction to Custom Business Objects

Part 2: Create a Custom Code List for a Custom Business Object

Part 3: Create a new Custom Business Object

Part 4: Create a custom UI and maintain data in Custom Business Object