BAPI BAPIRET2 type/severity 'W' (warning) correct behaviour

[Former Member]

I am working on an interface with another application. On the SAP side we will create a custom BAPI. I have explained the other guys that the BAPI will return (amongst other things) an array of type BAPIRET2 and explained the most important fields of BAPIRET2 - starting with TYPE, of course (which is more of a severity code).

Anyway, I explained the meaning of those letters, but I was not too sure about the precise meaning of 'W'.

If a BAPI "CreateWidget" has a W in its return, can the calling application assume that the widget has not been created at all or should it assume that a defective widget has been created?

[Former Member]

I am working on an interface with another application. On the SAP side we will create a custom BAPI. I have explained the other guys that the BAPI will return (amongst other things) an array of type BAPIRET2 and explained the most important fields of BAPIRET2 - starting with TYPE, of course (which is more of a severity code).

Anyway, I explained the meaning of those letters, but I was not too sure about the precise meaning of 'W'.

If a BAPI "CreateWidget" has a W in its return, can the calling application assume that the widget has not been created at all or should it assume that a defective widget has been created?

[Former Member]

I would generally expect it was created, but possibly with incomplete information.

[Former Member]

W is nothing but the Warning message while creating the widget. Check the bapi returns any message with E else widget may be created. Check in that bapi any import parameter is there to give the widget number created.

Regards,

Prakash.

[uwe_schieferstein]

Hello Peter

I can give you an example of another BAPI: if BAPI_SALESORDER_CREATEFROMDAT2 returns a warning (but no 'AEX' message) then the sales document has been created but some non-essential data (like the plant of the materials) are missing.

Regards

Uwe