Program RMDATIND

[Former Member]

Gurus,

I am using program RMDATIND to create material master which is working fine.Is it possible to use the same program for copying & extending.

The issue is the field for material & Copy material are same i-e MATNR so how to map the field for COPY MATERIAL in the program?

[JL23]

You can well use this program to extend an existing material , but you have to supply all field values yourself, the program does not copy the values from any reference material like MM01 does in foreground.

[Former Member]

I am going to extend the MARC  & other views,for which i am giving the values in excel,but the MARA fields like Volume unit,material group are not copied while running the program.Is it possible to MAP the copy material field in the source field?

[JL23]

you have only one material number, and this is the material number of the material that you want extend. A direct input program works much different to a user transaction. you are writing entries directly into a table, just minimal checks from SAP, you have to secure that you move all field values and that all field values are consistent and valid.

Why should the MARA field be copied? they are already present, MARA is only there once.

if you only extend then you do not need to consider the basic data view (BMMH0-XEIK1 = ' ')

[Former Member]

If MARA is already there then while uploading the system is throwing error for Volume unit,Gross weight,Gross weight net weight volume.Am i missing something?

Manually i see the MARA details but when going thru this program the system is asking the input values for

Volume unit,Gross weight, net weight volume ,material group & so on which are MARA related

[JL23]

what value do you have in field BMMH0-XEIK1?

Have you tried to use '/' as value for Volume unit,Gross weight,Gross weight net weight volume

[Former Member]

Jurgen ,

It worked with /.

Thank you.