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Various New Features and Changes in Business Partner
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Various New Features and Changes in Business Partner

Changes to the Interface

Use

The following changes have been made to the locator:

• The group of pushbuttons for changing the width of the locator has been arranged along the left-hand edge of the window.

This brings the advantage that the group of pushbuttons is always arranged along the left-hand edge of the window, regardless of the width of the locator, and does not move with the locator when it is made wider or narrower.

• The number of pushbuttons in the locator area has been reduced.

The pushbuttons Previous Search and Next Search on the tab page Search below the search criteria have been removed and replaced by entries in the context menu of the hit list.

On both tab pages of the locator, the pushbuttons Remove from my objects and Refresh have been omitted, leaving only the pushbuttons Choose and Add to my objects that can be accessed via the hit list.

With the pushbutton Choose, you transfer the business partners selected in the hit list into the work area.
With the pushbutton Add to my objects you transfer the business partners selected in the hit list into your worklist.

Changes to Status Managment

Use

The pushbutton Assign status profile can be found on the interface at the user status.

If you have defined several status profiles in the Customizing, you must first make a one-off selection of a status profile and assign it to the business partner in order to be able to define a required status for the business partner in question.

The pushbutton Assign status profile allows you to assign a business partner more easily to a status profile.

After the assignment of the status profile, the defined statuses are displayed for selection in the dialog box. If you have selected a status, the selected status profile as well as the assigned status are transferred and displayed on the interface.

After you have assigned the business partner to a status profile, the text on the pushbutton changes from Assign status profile to Insert status. Thus, after the assignment of a status profile, the pushbutton refers only to the selection of the status within the selected status profile.

Tree Structure for the Industries

Use

Effects on Existing Data

Effects on Data Transfer

Effects on System Administration

Effects on Customizing

Further Information

Dependency of the Fields Form of Address and Gender

Use

You can define a dependency between the fields Form of Address and Gender in the Customizing of the Business Address Services (BAS).

When you enter a gender-specific form of address (e.g. Mr/Mrs) or make a change, the assignment of the gender is automatically adapted.

If you change the indicator for the gender and it no longer matches the form of address, you receive an error message.
The adaptation of the gender is based on the form of address and not the opposite.

Effects on Customizing

Make the settings for the dependency of the fields Form of Address and Gender in the IMG of the Business Address Services (BAS):

• SAP Customizing IMG -> SAP Web Application Server -> Basis Services -> Address Management-> Maintain Texts for Form of Address

Change History for Address, Bank and Payment Card Details, Industries and Identification Numbers

Use

Via the pushbutton Change History below the relevant input area you can display the change information for a selected address, bank details, payment card details, industry or identification number.

Changes to Data Cleansing

Use

In order to enable data exchange of data cleansing cases with other systems, the following changes were made to the interface for data cleansing:

• Source/target decision

When you store a data cleansing case, a screen appears where you decide which of the data records constitutes the source and which the target for data cleansing.

The data record that should remain in the system in the long-term is regarded as the target for data cleansing. You can determine only one target record, but it can refer to several source records if necessary.
Once you have made the source/target decision, you can only transfer the data from the source objects to the target, but not in the other direction.

• Status of the data cleansing case

Additional statuses are now available to you for a data cleansing case. However, not all the available statuses are displayed on the interface for the value selection.

The selection depends on

1. whether a system is able to make a source/target decision.
   You make this setting in the Customizing.
2. which initial status is set
   This setting is controlled by a system table and you cannot make it yourself.

Changes to the objects involved (e.g. business partners) are not allowed in the case of the status R (rejected), D (done) B or (blocked).

Effects on Existing Data

Effects on Data Transfer

A data exchange of cleansing cases makes sense, if subsequent actions should occur in other systems (e.g. because there are other referencing objects there). The exchange takes place via the new SAP Exchange Infrastructure, and the messages defined for this purpose are stored in the Interface Repository as message types COM_HYPO*.

If data exchange should take place, it makes sense to define only one system (= 'master' of the data cleansing) as able to make a decision for a cleansing case (see below for the Customizing).All other systems should not have this ability (='clients' of the data cleansing).

Effects on System Administration

If a data exchange is required, the SAP Exchange Infrastructure has to be set up accordingly (particularly the System Landscape Directory). For more information, see the appropriate section of the basis component BC-AI.

Effects on Customizing

Table/view COMC_CLEAR_ACT was extended by way of a field, 'hypothesis decision' , which makes it possible to establish whether a system should be able to decide on cleansing cases. The indicator should only be set for a system in the system landscape if a data exchange has been set up.

The new system table, COMC_CLEAR_STAT, controls which statuses and which status transfers can be included in a system.

Further Information

General Data in Customer Master   SUBST_MERGE_LIST - merge external lists to one complete list with #if... logic for R3up  
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