Extending reduced message type?

[Former Member]

Hope somebody can help.

We have reduced a message type MATMASDI to ZMATMAS_DI and reduced this via BD53. Now we have found that we need to extend the REDUCED message type ZMATMAST_DI with a customized Z segment. How to achieve that, how to extend the reduced message type with a Z segment??

Leads me to more questions:

1. If extending a basic idoctype with a Zsegment, if then that basic idoctype is linked to an extension, will that extension then automatically include the new segment added to the extended idoc type?
2. How about the reduced idoc types that are linked with basic types - will these reduced idoctypes include the added segment to the extended basic idoctypes?

Hope someone can help

[Former Member]

I ended up creating new messagetype - that was easier and the best solution for my particular request.

[Private_Member_50209]

Hello,

As I was looking for a similar solution and couldn't find it online, adding here our solution:

1. Created the extension on the standard MATMAS IDoc type, adding our ZSEGMENT
2. Created a reduced message type based on MATMAS (BD53)
3. Removed the automatically created entries in WE82 for our Z-message type and recreated them, this time adding the extension.