Automate

Dear all,

Having plenty of experience with Winshuttle TRANSACTION I'm now in need using DIRECT updating several custom append fields at Material Master. The custom fields - Z-fields are located at different views as well as on different SAP tables, like MARA and MARC. Thanks to our users Material Master records don't have the views always at the same place. This is depending on activated views as well as the usage of views with long text such as Sales text. Even putting a logic into TRANSACTION script checking for maintenance status of material and calculating potential view position it's not running well.

Last year I have already asked for such a case but related to SAP standard fields. Rick Compen was helping here a lot solving this. Rick made also a hint how to enhance to Z-fields. But unfortunately I didn't get the point.

Today went through approx. 250 posts on this site related to this kind of issue but only found one post where unfortunately no script was included.

Thanks to anyone helping me out here.

Kind regards

Hans Georg

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Hans Georg Loef
Supply Chain and Production Master Data specialist
Trivium Packaging BV
Weißenthurm
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Hi Hans

We also have custom fields.
To complete them in our Automate solution, I use an MM02 script. There is no way of using the direct solution via the BAPI.

Kind regards

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Laurent HAAS
Data Manager
HERTAFOODS
France
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Hello Laurent,

Many thanks for your reply. However, I'm wondering that you wrote "no way" as it seems making it working.

Got this advice in an earlier post but have unfortunately not enough knowledge making it working.

This was the comment: 

1. The trick for the Z field is that you need to include extensionin and extensioninx. In case of multiple Z fields, I do recall that that you need to provide the input in a specific concatenated way, where " " represent a blank input. (actually quite similar to LSWM if you have experience with that) 

Asked Rick Compen what he is doing. Having his answer, I'll publish my results here.

Cheers

Hans Georg

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Hans Georg Loef
Supply Chain and Production Master Data specialist
Trivium Packaging BV
Weißenthurm
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-17-2024 01:45
From: Laurent HAAS
Subject: Winshuttle - Automate BAPI_MATERIAL_SAVEDATA for custom fields

Hi Hans

We also have custom fields.
To complete them in our Automate solution, I use an MM02 script. There is no way of using the direct solution via the BAPI.

Kind regards

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Laurent HAAS
Data Manager
HERTAFOODS
France
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