Custom fields for FV50 table control

[Former Member]

Hello,

The customer has a requirement to add 3 text fields to the table control in Transaction FV50. These fields are currently not available in the table control at all (I checked the Table settings Administrator). Further, no Screen/Transaction Variant has been implemented either to prevent these fields from being displayed. Which is why I'd like to find a way to add these custom fields to this table control. These fields are the text descrptions for the numeric fields Cost Center, Fund and Business Area.

I've read many posts on this forum regarding potential solutions including the link below which details the SAP std solution. Only problem is this approach adds these fields to the data dictionary tables underlying the screen. The customer says about 1 million records are being generated a month so they would rather not have all that extra data at the line item level.

If anybody has done this sort of thing via a user exit I'd much appreciate your input.

Thanks,

Tarun

[Former Member]

Hello,

The customer has a requirement to add 3 text fields to the table control in Transaction FV50. These fields are currently not available in the table control at all (I checked the Table settings Administrator). Further, no Screen/Transaction Variant has been implemented either to prevent these fields from being displayed. Which is why I'd like to find a way to add these custom fields to this table control. These fields are the text descrptions for the numeric fields Cost Center, Fund and Business Area.

I've read many posts on this forum regarding potential solutions including the link below which details the SAP std solution. Only problem is this approach adds these fields to the data dictionary tables underlying the screen. The customer says about 1 million records are being generated a month so they would rather not have all that extra data at the line item level.

If anybody has done this sort of thing via a user exit I'd much appreciate your input.

Thanks,

Tarun

[Former Member]

After some more research via SMOD, and looking at available BADIs, it appears no clear cut screen exit is available either for the screen in question here (SAPLFSKB 0100). I'm hoping to find something that will allow me to read the cost center or fund description from the master data and simply display it on the screen without extending any underlying tables. Ideally, if I could just add the necessary custom text fields that would be nice.

Any help is appreciated.

Tarun

[Former Member]

Have you checked to see if this can be done through configuration?

Rob

[Former Member]

Hi Rob,

Yes, I checked IMG configuration and found that Txn OXK3 allows us to extend the underlying tables and customize the generic fields in the table control. However, the client has nearly 1 million postings to table BSEG each month and I'm guessing this approach will entail adding the custom fields to table BSEG, which won't work for them. I haven't actually tried this approach because the SAP documentation has some dire warnings about proceeding. But if you have any insight as to whether this can be achieved without extending BSEG (possibly just extend VBSEGS??) that would be very valuable.

Thanks,

Tarun

[Former Member]

Adding the new fields to BSEG would be redundant, and something to avoid. Have you raised an OSS message. The worst they can do is say it's a consulting issue.

Rob