Transaction code BP

[Former Member]

Hi,

we are using the transaction code "BP" for business partner creation and unlike XD01 we do not have the functionality of "create with reference" option while creating a new partner as part of standard SAP here.

Can anybody help in any stategy on how to implement this functionality.

Any ideas will be of great help.

Thanks,

Kiran

[Former Member]

I think you can not create the BP wrt the other here.

For any help,

http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/EN/data/pdf/CABP/CABP.pdf

[Former Member]

Hi Kiran,

There is no option in the standard to create a BP as a reference to another BP. You would need to implement this functionality separately by copying the new BP from the old BP using a Z report.

Here's how you can copy the BP :

1. The easiest way is to use APIs. Start by calling BUPA_CENTRAL_GET_DETAIL usign the BP number. THis will give you all the central data for the BP - e.g. name, etc. Now, merely feed the output of this module into the module BUPA_CREATE_FROM_DATA. This will create a new BP with the same data of the old BP.

2. Now that the main BP is ready, you need to start copying the individual datasets - addresses, bank details, roles, Id, industry,etc. This is tricky - the ADD apis - BUPA_ADDRESS_ADD, BUPA_ROLE_ADD, etc can only create one record in a call. So, you need to first get the data of the reference BP using the GET_DETAIL api e.g. : BUPA_ADDRESS_GET_DETAIL, then loop at each returned record, and pass that into the correspinding ADD BAPI.

3. Be sure to call BAPI_TRANSACTION_COMMIT at the end to commit the data to the DB.

Also, please refer to thread []

This has some discussions on a similar point, so it might provide some more concepts.

Hope this helps you .

Cheers,

Rishu.