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SD Document Flow

Former Member — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:02:56 GMT

I want to update a FI document to SD - sales order in it's document flow.

I was able to update Table - VBFA by using Function Module RV_DOCUMENT_FLOW_UPDATE_U.

But I still can't see the updated document flow when using VA03N for that sales order , though can see the entries in VBFA.

Any ideas ?

Thanks.

Re: SD Document Flow

Former Member — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:52:42 GMT

Execute function module RV_ORDER_FLOW_INFORMATION (which is used for sales document flow display in VA03) for the specific order and check whether the updated information is appearing in the output.

Regards, Vinod

Re: SD Document Flow

Former Member — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:39:56 GMT

Hi Vinod,

Thanks for your reply.

I executed the said FM, It doesnot return those updated information....

Is because VBFA is not updated correctly ? what else could be the issue ?

Regards

Re: SD Document Flow

Former Member — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:56:27 GMT

It means, VBFA table is not updated properly. Debugging the FM RV_ORDER_FLOW_INFORMATION will help you to identify the reason.

P.S : Is there any specific reason to update the standard document flow in VBFA? AFAIK, this table is updated properly as per the configuration.

Regards, Vinod

Edited by: Vinod Kumar on Jun 8, 2011 4:27 PM

Re: SD Document Flow

Former Member — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:04:08 GMT

The reason is, we are creating a FI Invoice (FB70) against a sales order and since it is FI doc it does not get updated in doc flow automatically. so want to link it to the sales order... any ideas ?

thanks for your help.

Re: SD Document Flow

Former Member — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:18:01 GMT

From functional point of view, i am not aware whether this is the correct method. Technically, there seems to be something wrong with the way you update the VBFA table. Go through the Function module RV_ORDER_FLOW_INFORMATION to know how the document flow display is being populated using VBFA.

Regards, Vinod

Re: SD Document Flow

former_member404244 — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:25:41 GMT

Hi,

As Vinod suggested do like that also you can give a try with the function module DISPLAY_DOCUMENT_FLOW_ALV. You can debug this and can see the flow.

Regards,

Nagaraj

Re: SD Document Flow

Former Member — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:32:37 GMT

Have you checked the programming that reads and displays the document flow to see that it handles the document type you are adding to VBFA?

Re: SD Document Flow

RaymondGiuseppi — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:14:20 GMT

Calling an update task FM like RV_DOCUMENT_FLOW_UPDATE_U is rarely a good option, often not much more than a direct update of database as most (all) checks are performed by SAP before calling those FM at commit.

You could try to replicate SAP behavior by analyzing form maintain_sd_flow in include LBBP_EXTREQF03, this form update the SD flow from MM, try to adapt it.

Regards,

Raymond