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Difference in ' ' ,dummies and $

Former Member — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:06:48 GMT

in Authorization field value what the difference between

' ' , Dummies and sometimes we find like

$werks or $burks.some one please clarify

Re: Difference in ' ' ,dummies and $

Former Member — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:11:48 GMT

Dummy is for madatory input fields and $ is refering to a ORGLevel variable and the value can be found in table AGR_1252

Re: Difference in ' ' ,dummies and $

Former Member — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:15:39 GMT

Hi Banerjee,

useful link

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/9f/dbaccb35c111d1829f0000e829fbfe/frameset.htm

thanks

kishore

Re: Difference in ' ' ,dummies and $

Former Member — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:22:26 GMT

Hi Banerjee,

Please find below link which may relevent to ur post :

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along with that, $werks or $burks are depend on ur organisational requirement.You have to maintain those field values in as per ur company.

Rgds,

Gadde.

Re: Difference in ' ' ,dummies and $

Wolfgang_Janzen — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:48:16 GMT


> Hi Banerjee,
> 
> useful link
> 
> http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/9f/dbaccb35c111d1829f0000e829fbfe/frameset.htm
> 
> 
> thanks
> kishore

Many thanks, Kishore.

That's exactly what I would have replied ...

Cheers, Wolfgang

Re: Difference in ' ' ,dummies and $

Former Member — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:09:09 GMT

> Wolfgang Janzen wrote:

> Many thanks, Kishore.

I am very tempted to click on the "Problem solved button" for having used the search, but ' ' is still fair game, so I'll go for "Very helpfull answer".

PS: Normally, I dont interfer. Actually, I <removed_by_moderator>

Re: Difference in ' ' ,dummies and $

Former Member — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:37:07 GMT

dummy values can also come about from poor code or where a coder wants to do an initial check on existence of an object

Re: Difference in ' ' ,dummies and $

Former Member — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:15:45 GMT

> Alex Ayers wrote:

> dummy values can also come about from poor code or where a coder wants to do an initial check on existence of an object

The existence of the (authorization) object will be checked by the authority-check statement, unless there is no requirement for the statement to be syntaxically correct (a good candidate for ending in ST22). Of that I am pretty sure.

Perhaps you meant, the existence of a value for the field in the record being selected? (in which case I misunderstood you).

Regarding the first part: I read the link again. The documentation appears to have changed from what I had remembered (or my memory changed :-). There is no clear indication that there must be "something" there but it does not matter what "it" is! (e.g. ' ').

I checked F1 in ABAPDOCU on a 7.00 system and it said a bit more, but implied the same: An authority-check for a field value DUMMY does not execute a check for the field value and sy-subrc is set to 0 (unless for other reasons not) => even if it is empty (a.k.a. "yellow")?

I guess it still depends anyway on where the authority-check is, and what the developer does with it if sy-subrc NE 0...

Cheers,

Julius

Re: Difference in ' ' ,dummies and $

Former Member — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:31:51 GMT

Hi Julius,

I've seen it coded a few times where the developer appears to want to do a quick validation before further processing - example would be F_BKPF_BUK, ACTVT=03 after the mandatory S_TCODE check before going into the tx and evaluating the various relevant BUKRS. An alternative to doing the same in SU93 perhaps?

Cheers

Alex

Re: Difference in ' ' ,dummies and $

Former Member — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:51:49 GMT

Hello Alex,

I am still a bit confused now.

If you had a "vanilla" SAP system with 2000 dialog users in it... FI, CO, MM, SD, AA, a bit of PS and some batch-input... how many users would not have F_BKPF_BUK id ACTVT field '03' id BUKRS field DUMMY? (where DUMMY is "something", a company code of any sort, not caring which one).

I will try to check it again. I suspect that it might eve differ from object to object / mandatory to optional, etc...

Cheers,

Julius

Re: Difference in ' ' ,dummies and $

Former Member — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:03:09 GMT

Thank you all for reply