Having a problem in changing customer using CMD_EI_API

[surendra_battula]

I am having a customer number with general data and I want to insert company code ,sales data . I have created the customer number when my bp is created using account group.  I am trying to enter data using class cmd_ei_api class=>maintain method and passing  update mode 'U'. but I am ending up with an error as below.

Error:

Customer 200003 has not been created for sales area AAL0 10 10.

I am trying to update the customer with data and the knvv table dont have data for this customer and I am getting an error. am I using the right method. if I am wrong please tell me the function module or other way to update the customer.

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debugging errors .

Message was edited by: Matthew Billingham

[Arun_Prabhu_K]

Hello Surendra Battula.

     I guess the problem may be because of no preceding zeroes for customer field.

     Have you hard-coded the customer number?

     While passing to any standard FM/BAPI, its internal representation should be passed.

     Make use of CONVERSION_EXIT_ALPHA_INPUT for your customer value and try.    

Regards.

[surendra_battula]

Hi Arun

No i am not hard coding but it is happening because if it has no data in knvv table it is raising the error. is this method for modifying on existing data.

I have created one customer daat in xd01 by passing the customer no and then I ran the program as there is data in knvv it executed with out an error.

so it is working only when there is sales data.

[surendra_battula]

hi

I have managed to execute the method. what I found is the sales data is created but the company code is not created. I couldnt trace out why the company code is not created so the knb1 table is not updated.

but the sales data is updated and working fine.

I am using the  task as M which is change/create .

[matt]

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