abap client problem asked in interview

[Former Member]

HELLO FRIENDS.

AT THE TIME OF IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT FOR A CLIENT.

IF I HAVE GENERATED A REPORT ON VENDOR MASTER.

AFTER 2 YEARS THE CLIENT HAS FACED SOME LEGAL PROBLEM WITH THE VENDOR AND HE HAD DELETED THE VENDOR FROM HIS DATA BASE.

THEN

HOW CAN MY REPORT WORK AFTER DELETION OF THAT VENDOR? WHETHER IT WILL SHOW THE SAME TOTAL NO OF VENDORS.

IN THE MIDDLE IF ONE VENDOR WILL BE DELETED WILL ALL THE VENDOR NO'S DOWN THAT PARTICULAR VENDOR WILL CHANGE? IF VENDOR NO'S ARE CHANGED THE CLIENT WILL FACE A LOT OF PROBLEMS.

[Former Member]

if a vendor is deleted, he is not shown in the report output.

although if a vendor is deleted, the other vendor numbers don't change as they have already been created. the vendor number which u have deleted if needed can be assigned to some other new vendor or else leave as it is...no problem...

award points...

[Former Member]

This is actually a rather complicated question. If you mark a vendor for deletion, you do just that - mark it. The vendor is not deleted at that point. So long as your report doesn't look at the deletion indicator, it should pick up deleted vendors.

You actually delete vendors by running the archiving program. But in order to archive deleted vendors, there can be no dependent data (invoices, etc.) I'm not sure if this means that there never were invoices or if it means that these invoices were already archived themseleves.

Rob

[Former Member]

Manoj,

Rob's answer is "spot on."

And for an interview question - this is kinda odd.