BAPI_SHIPMENT_CHANGE - change addditonal custom fields

[NataliaGlants]

Hello BAPI Guru's,

I use the BAPI_SHIPMENT_CHANGE to change some fields in Shipment header.

All normal requirements are working good.

We have extended table VTTK with couple of Z-fields and We want to update this fields also.

By default this BAPI will not update these new custom fields as they are not existing in the BAPI interface (structure BAPISHIPMENTHEADER).

Thanks a lot !

Regards,

Natalia.

[mvoros]

Hi,

it does not look good. Usually, BAPIs have table with name EXTENSION which can be used to pass values to custom fields ([example|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/6b/3f6d2b6d0711d396a50004ac96334b/frameset.htm]). This BAPI does not have it. BTW it hasn't been released officially.

So it looks like only option is to enhance/modify SAP code. It should be possible to use enhancement framework for this. You could enhance BAPI structures or just create a new optional parameter where you will pass all your extra fields and then use suitable enhancement points to populate internal structures. It might work. BAPI_SHIPMENT_CHANGE calls SD_SHIPMENT_PROCESS_EXT_CHANGE. So maybe you can write your own wrapper instead of BAPI_SHIPMENT_CHANGE and enhance SD_SHIPMENT_PROCESS_EXT_CHANGE only. Here I would check routine set_header_change_data. You can easily test it. Just put a break point here, modify your custom fields (variable cs_header-data) and see if they will change after processing BAPI.

Cheers