How is table VBFA populated?

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I will appreciate if someone can explain to me how is table VBFA populated. What is the logic for creating a record inside this table ?. Why are also some documents that only have 000000 as value in the POSNN field?

Thanks for your help.

[naimesh_patel]

VBFA is being populated based on the indicator "Set Document Flow" in the copy control configuration maintained for the SD documents.

E.g Sales Order SO1 (with 1 item) has delivery DEL1. Than VBFA has 1 entry.

SO1 ... DEL1

Than billing BIL1 has been created for DEL1 than VBFA will have total 3 entries:

SO1... DEL1

SO1.... BIL1

DEL1... BIL1

Entry with POSNN '000000' is being generated when you create a new document with reference to antoher document.

E.g. Sales Order 123 has been created as a copy of 120 than you will find an entry with 000000.

Regards,

Naimesh Patel

[Former Member]

Hi Naimesh,

As I explained to you in my original question I have VBELN = 716838 and POSNN = 000000. How do I find then the subsequent documents for this combination in a select statement...?

When using SE16 you just put VBELV = 716838 ,POSNV = 0 and some records are being displayed but the values for POSNV are not zeroes. When using a select the program doesn't read any record because there are not occurrences for POSNV = 000000.

Please advise.

Thanks Luis.

[naimesh_patel]

As Max directed, you can use the FM RV_ORDER_FLOW_INFORMATION to get the document flow for one perticular document.

Regards,

Naimesh Patel

[Former Member]

Hi

The system populates that table in order to create a link beetween the previous and next document:

The fields:

- VBELV and POSNV are the number of document and item of previuos document;

- VBELN and POSNN are the number of document and item of next document;

So if u have a document 1 and item 10, if u need to select the next documents u should get all records where VBELV and POSNV are 1 and 10, then u should select all next documents of the next documents of your first one (doc. 1 and item 10), and so....

U can see the fm RV_ORDER_FLOW_INFORMATION in ordert to understand how to read VBFA

Max

[Former Member]

Hi Max,

Could you or Naimesh point me into the documentation on how to use the FM module RV_ORDER_FLOW_INFORMATION ?

Thanks for your kind help.

Luis Leston

[naimesh_patel]

The easiest way to use it is like:

  DATA: BEGIN OF L_COMWA OCCURS 1.
          INCLUDE STRUCTURE VBCO6.
  DATA: END   OF L_COMWA.

  data: begin of it_vbfa occurs 1.
          include structure vbfa.
  data: end   of it_vbfa.


  L_COMWA-VBELN = P_VBELN.   " VBELN

  CALL FUNCTION 'RV_ORDER_FLOW_INFORMATION'
    EXPORTING
*     AUFBEREITUNG        = '2'
*     BELEGTYP            = ' '
      COMWA               = L_COMWA
*     NACHFOLGER          = 'X'
*     N_STUFEN            = '50'
*     VORGAENGER          = 'X'
*     V_STUFEN            = '50'
*   IMPORTING
*     BELEGTYP_BACK       =
    TABLES
      VBFA_TAB            = IT_VBFA
    EXCEPTIONS
      NO_VBFA             = 1
      NO_VBUK_FOUND       = 2
      OTHERS              = 3

Regards,

Naimesh Patel