topic Difference between BAPI_ACC_DOCUMENT_POST and POST_DOCUMENT in Application Development and Automation Discussions https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/difference-between-bapi-acc-document-post-and-post-document/m-p/7511412#M1559574 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P></P><P>Anybody knows the difference between this MF: BAPI_ACC_DOCUMENT_POST and POST_DOCUMENT ?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:04:14 GMT Former Member 2010-11-29T15:04:14Z Difference between BAPI_ACC_DOCUMENT_POST and POST_DOCUMENT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/difference-between-bapi-acc-document-post-and-post-document/m-p/7511412#M1559574 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P></P><P>Anybody knows the difference between this MF: BAPI_ACC_DOCUMENT_POST and POST_DOCUMENT ?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:04:14 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/difference-between-bapi-acc-document-post-and-post-document/m-p/7511412#M1559574 Former Member 2010-11-29T15:04:14Z Re: Difference between BAPI_ACC_DOCUMENT_POST and POST_DOCUMENT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/difference-between-bapi-acc-document-post-and-post-document/m-p/7511413#M1559575 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>BAPI_ACC_DOCUMENT_POST is documented and released for customer use. POST_DOCUMENT is not. That's enough for me.</P><P></P><P>Rob</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:13:44 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/difference-between-bapi-acc-document-post-and-post-document/m-p/7511413#M1559575 Former Member 2010-11-29T15:13:44Z Re: Difference between BAPI_ACC_DOCUMENT_POST and POST_DOCUMENT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/difference-between-bapi-acc-document-post-and-post-document/m-p/7511414#M1559576 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P></P><P>The first is a BAPI so it's a method (RFC enable) to post an accounting document, POST_DOCUMENT is the fm to update the database only, so probably it can be called by BAPI_ACC_DOCUMENT_POST</P><P></P><P>That means all data are formatted in according to the accounting tables (BKPF, BSEG .......and then the fm POST_DOCUMENT is called in order to save them in database.</P><P></P><P>All updating database processes are usually included in fm, UPDATE MODULE enable, in order to run the saving in update task process, triggered as soon as a commit is called</P><P></P><P>So <STRONG>DON'T USE</STRONG> the fm POST_DOCUMENT to create an accounting document, because you should know all FI processes very very very well in order to fill correctly all accounting table, else you risk to create inconsistences in the accounting data.</P><P></P><P>Max</P><P></P><P>Edited by: max bianchi on Nov 29, 2010 4:17 PM</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:15:14 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/difference-between-bapi-acc-document-post-and-post-document/m-p/7511414#M1559576 Former Member 2010-11-29T15:15:14Z