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Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

andrewscott9 — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:13:00 GMT

Hi there,

I am writing some code which uses the BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

to create a new customer.

However, when running the code I get the following error:

Internal error: Refe. customer does not exist in master record

Which suggests that the customer no I am passing to the BAPI does not exist.

But the customer number will not exist because I am trying to create it !

I'm obviously missing a step somewhere?

Any ideas anyone

Thanks

Andy

Re: Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

Former Member — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:02:26 GMT

Hi andy,

Please try to see FM'long text,and you will get more infomations.

Regards.

Re: Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

andrewscott9 — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:08:25 GMT

Thanks for the reply , but the long text is blank when I run the program in debug mode.

Andy

Re: Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

Former Member — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:31:32 GMT

Hi Andy,

Did You try not passing PI_COPYREFERENCE structure ? This , I think , is reference customer to create new customer.

Best regards,

Shanmukh

Re: Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

andrewscott9 — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:35:06 GMT

Hi,

Yep using the copyref :

e.g. copyref-ref_custmr = 'CRM1379345'.

Re: Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

Former Member — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:39:20 GMT

Does this Customer exist ?

Re: Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

andrewscott9 — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:41:08 GMT

Hi ,

No the customer does not exist

Re: Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

Former Member — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:53:33 GMT

Hi,

It will give error for obvious reasons. You're passing a reference customer to BAPI which is not even created.

BAPI is trying to create new customer by copying the reference customer passed by you. Hence the error.

Re: Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

Former Member — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:12:02 GMT

Pass an existing customer as reference , so that the new customer is created copying appropriate fields from ref. customer.

Re: Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

Former Member — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:14:54 GMT

Also, the new customer number will be generated and returned in exporting parameters of the BAPI.

Re: Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

Former Member — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 01:00:12 GMT

Hi andy,

The long text that i mentioned is import/export parameter's.

The usage of each parameter was introduced in long text.

Regards.

Re: Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

andrewscott9 — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:17:28 GMT

Hi many thanks for the reply.

The problem I have got is that I need to pass into the BAPI the customer number

I need creating. In my example I need 'CRM1379345' creating.

I know you can do this via transaction XD01. There must be a way of doing the same

with the BAPI??

Thanks

Andy

Re: Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

Former Member — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:39:47 GMT

Hi Andy,

Customer number is internally generated by SAP. Even in XD01, you pass all the required fields , like customer information and after saving SAP generates the Customer number for you. You cannot create a customer with predetermined Customer number.

Best regards,

Shanmukh

Re: Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

Former Member — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:56:48 GMT

Hi,

Isn't this based on a 'customising setting' ?

Isn't it possible to activate 'external numbering' ?

I think you should check with a functional person.

I know this is possible for some objects, but I'm not 100% sure that this is the case for BP's

Regards,

Re: Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

melchior_periyanayagam — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 08:20:17 GMT

Hi Andy,

As per the SAP Note 390045 - Usage of BAPI_CUSTOMER_* of function group V02D, there is a danger that you will lose data if you use the FM BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1 outside of SAP online store.

Instead of this FM, we have a method called as CMD_EI_API=>MAINTAIN_BAPI to create/ update a customer without any reference.

Using this method, you can create/ update the general data, company code data and Sales area data without any issues.

Re: Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

andrewscott9 — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:25:42 GMT

I'm still a little confused with this.

One of our functional people has just created a customer in XD01 by entering the

the customer 'CRM1379345'. The one I was trying to create.

The transaction worked and the customer was created.

I should be able to replicate this in the BAPI ??

Thanks

Andy

Re: Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

former_member210770 — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:47:09 GMT

Hi Andy,

Just Ask your functional Consultant weather Customer creation number range is Internal or External. If it is External which i don't think most company prefers , than you have to pass Customer number in Bapi and also you have to pass reference Customer Number in Bapi (Note Reference Customer should be already created and exist in system) . If it is internal number range than no need to pass customer number in Bapi but you can pass reference customer number to create new customer by taking reference another customer.

Pass all mandatory parameters. For this you can use below documentation

Tcode : BAPI-> Tab Alphabetical -> Customer -> CreateFromData1 -> Documentation.

Hope this will help.

Regards,

Sagar

Re: Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

Former Member — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:52:36 GMT

Hi Andy,

You can switch on logging for synchronous calls in PI ( I am assuming the QOS is BE in your case) and see if the request payload to the RFC adapter is getting framed correctly.

Re: Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

andrewscott9 — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:31:49 GMT

Many thanks for your reply Sagar, much appreciated.

I have just checked and we are using external number range.

So am I correct that I need to pass the ref cust i.e. BAPIKNA102-REF_CUSTMR which

is a customer previously created ?

And also pass the customer number in which I need created?

If this is the case I cant see where to pass the customer number that I need creating.

That make sense?

Re: Creating New Customer - BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1

former_member210770 — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:56:56 GMT

Hi Andy,

Yes you are right I just go through this bapi. It seems that to create the customer using bapi, you have to use internal number range. Because there is no option to pass external number range.

You can ask your functional consultant to do it ones and you can test it. If it will work then you might go with this approach.

Or if it is strict to use external number range then you can use BDC. It will be only approach.

Regards,

Sagar