Updating User-defined fields using BAPI BAPI_MATERIAL_SAVEDATA

[Former Member]

Hi Friends,

I have 60 user defined fields in append structure of MARA.

I enhanced BAPI_TE_MARA structure with user defined fields (same as Mara append structure)and also enhanced BAPI_TE_MARAX with same user defined field names but dataelement as "BAPIUPDATE" for all fields.

Now My question is how to populate internal tables EXTENSIONIN and EXTENSIONINX. I saw few discussions on SDN network , but I did not find proper answers. PL provide sample code to update customer-defined fields sucessfully using BAPI.

Appreciate your prompt reply.

Thanks in Advance.

[Former Member]

Populate the fields in BAPI_TE_MARA and mark the flag for the corrsponding fields in BAPI_TE_MARAX to X.

If BAPI_TE_MARA has 2 fields FLD1 and FLD2 u need to populate these 2 fields and the flags corresponding to these fields i.e. FLD1 and FLD2 in BAPI_TE_MARAX as X.

Dont forget to use BAPI_TRANSACTION_COMMIT after the material update BAPI.

-Kiran

[Former Member]

Hi Kiran,

Thanks for your quick reply. I understand how to populate EXTENSIONIN and EXTENSIONINX certen extend.

My problem is I have 60 customer defined fields in Mara. the total lenght of the field BAPIPAREX-VALUEPART1 is only 240 char. my total fields lenghts are much more than 240 char. and also I did not understand the usage of field VALUEPART2,VALUEPART3,VALUEPART4 in BAPIPARX.

Any clarification purpuse of these fields. Appreciate any sample code for updating multiple user defined fields.

Thanks

[Former Member]

VALUEPART2,VALUEPART3 and VALUEPART4 are also to be used for populating data in the custom fields.

Lets say you have added a structure to MARA called STR1 which has 3 fields, 10 char each. You also need to create STR1X which has 1 character flags for the fields in STR1.

To populate values in these fields u need to maintain the extension tables as below:

BAPIPAREX-STRUCTURE = 'STR1'.

BAPIPAREX-VALUEPART1+0(10) = '1st FLD'.

BAPIPAREX-VALUEPART1+10(10) = '2nd FLD'.

BAPIPAREX-VALUEPART1+20(10) = '3rd FLD'.

APPEND BAPIPAREX.

BAPIPAREXX-STRUCTURE = 'STR1X'.

BAPIPAREXX-VALUEPART1+0(1) = 'X'.

BAPIPAREXX-VALUEPART1+1(1) = 'X'.

BAPIPAREXX-VALUEPART1+2(1) = 'X'.

APPEND BAPIPAREXX.

If you have more than 60 fields you could split the fields in to multiple strucutres and populate the extensions for each structure.

-Kiran

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[Former Member]

Hi Kiran,

Thanks for your quick reply. let me try passing fields to VALUEPART2 and VALUEPART3 and VALUEPART4 fields also.

Thanks