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Backdating posting date for incoming payments.

Hi All,IN FICA, can we backdate posting date to give discounts for the customer payments. When I backdate posting date, the system gives me an error that the month end is closed.Is there an event or function module for backdate posting.Thanks for the...

Resolved! Custom view in contract account screen

We added custom fields/view in contract account screen. The new section is confidential and can only be seen if there is proper authorizaion.I was able to hide the fields in the new view/section but not the view/section itself. If the user has no p...

Maintaining tax rates

Hi Experts,I have one duobt regarding maintaining tax rates.Where we can maintain tax rates?In our project we are using 7 % and 10% based on customers.But I don't from where system pick there rates. We can see the tax rates from the table DBERDL.Is t...

I-SU Version?

Hello!Where can I look at I-SU Version? I need it for my project.Thanks!

Error while creating partial bill - msg. class >4 msg no. 011

Hi All,While creating a partial bill through EA27, the log shows the error as "Error in converting a repetition document"Has anyone got this error before and what was the cause for this error, as I am not able to spot the reason why the error is comi...

Archive data from SAP

How can I archive some data from SAP, what is the procedure to do it and the TCodes. Whether I can take archive and copy the data into the CDs, when it is require how can I provide the data into the system, total procedure and the solution. Please gu...

BPEM(Business Process Exception Management)

Hi Experts,Can anyone please provide some details of BPEM(Business process Exception Management). Would appreciate if someone can provide some material on this starting from basics as I am new to this.Thanks

Need Help on FM - ISU_S_DEVICEMOD_CHANGE

Hi Experts,We have a requirement where we have to change the Register Configurations for the Device(EG42) programatically using Function Module: ISU_S_DEVICEMOD_CHANGE. If anyone has worked on similar requirement please suggest me what are all the ex...

Resolved! Business Partner Status

Hello,I am trying to upload Business Partner using EMIGALL. I am not able to find any field or strucutre for Status in the standard partner object. How do I do this?thank u.Ram

dunning not happening for contract accounts

Hi All,I have few contract accounts which are not picked up for dunning from the time the contract accounts are created.there are open invoices from year 2008. dunning procedure is attached to contract accounts.if have checked out most of the things....

Resolved! Serial Number of devices

Hi ,The equipment category " I " has been assigned with the number ranges in the plant maintenance.The internal number range is 10000000 to 19999999 and the current status is 10122779.When i create a device using IQ01for a new material ,the syste...

Resolved! ISU modules

Hi Experts,I'am working for an ISU project since one year. I'm working for three modules(ISU-BILLING,Correspondence letters and Print work bench).So I want to expose myself into a perticular module any one of above three module.Can you please suggest...

Resolved! security deposit return date

Hello everyone,I would like to know that in security deposit what is the relation between start date date and return date and also how return date is moved accordingly with start date ?Can any one guide me on these queries..??Best Regards,Shruti

Deactivating installment plans

Hi All,We have upgraded from 4.6C to ECC 6.I am not able to deactiavte installment plan and getting the following message :"Division differs from division 10 in the contract"Message no. EK300The installment plan has two contracts for division 10 and...

Triggering AMI Enterprise Services to generate XML Message

Dear All,We have deployed the EhP4 on ECC 6.0 and configured the AMI. Also setup the AMI enabled devices. We have created Meter Reading Orders for the periodic meter reading. But the creation of MROs does not trigger creation of XML messages.We found...

Resolved! Contract Account for the business partners

Hello Experts,Once the certificate expires the program must find all the contract accounts for the business partners and change the account determination ID field on the CA to be taxable. I already did the code to verify if the certificate is expire ...

Full Installations through EG31

Hi allWhile I am trying to Full Installations through EG31 , During that time I am getting an error message Equipment category I is inconsistently definedMessage no. EN268DiagnosisI is an IS-U equipment category and has equipment reference category S...

Duplicate customer master has to be removed from database

Hi Experts,There are some duplicate customer master exists in our dadabase which needs to be removed.For eg. We have defined a process in such a way, as when creating Business Partner in ISU, system should automatically create Customer master.While d...

Error in Billing - 'No registers allocated to Installation''

Hi experts,Error while doing Creating MR order 'No registers allocated to Installation''can you advice a solution to the above error? Is it a DM consultant job to complete the registers allocation to installation?Pls advice asap. thxgr

error in Invoicing- Error 'No billing orders exist for contract 1000000649'

HI Experts,Can anybody help me to resolve this ticket??Error 'No billing orders exist for contract 1000000649'I've created Billing using Billing order and when i started creating Invoice, i am getting the above error.appreciate your response asap.thx...

Java Instance Does not Start Can't attach to message server

Hi ,Please check the follwoing log and suggest! I am on the Step 36 of 39 while installing BI Java Stack instance on a server where a BI ABAP stack is already up and running[Thr 11856] Sat Oct 24 11:08:21 2009[Thr 11856] ***LOG Q0I=> NiPConnect2: con...

Resolved! EIDESWTDOC field 'status switch'

while in the table EIDESWTDOC (switch document) , the field 'status swicth' has a status value.Is there a way to know what the previous value was before it got overwritten with the new value ?ThanksEdited by: sunil chandiramani on Oct 23, 2009 7:22 P...

Resolved! EMIGALL Data Type Error

Hello all,I am getting the error Termination due to datatype in EMIGALL. Please remove itThank youRam

To insert a text field value in business partner-Emigall

Hi All,I need to insert data in one of the text field in the business partner under the 'Contol' head. I am creating a business partner thru emigall but cannot find how to insert the text data in the text field. If there is another easy way please he...

Correspondence Container Help

Hello Experts, When the business partner is eligible to be sent the tax certificate reminder notice the program should create an entry in the correspondence container for the correspondence type "F-FI-002-01" - Tax Exemption Expiry Letter. I don't ha...

Payment transfer in collective bill account

What is the most efficient process of transferring payments from one collective bill account to another collective bill account?We cannot use FP40 because it gives this error message:Contract account xxxxxxxxxxxx is a collective bill accountMessage n...

Resolved! Problem in EMIGALL

Hello friends,I am using the EMIGALL to migrate data. I am new to it. When I start EMIGALL, earlier i used to see the migration object ACCOUNT in SAP. But now i not able to see. Where it gone? can any one help me?thankyou.Ram

u2018Last Inspection Dateu2019 of the device

Hi allI want to know how I can find Device Inspection Date. Is there any FM or Database Table.Thanks in advance,Indu.

Resolved! forward slash (/) in Emigall

Hi allI am having an issue trying to send a string that begins with a slash (/) up through Emigall. It appears as if when I send a slash as the first character of a string (field), the entire string is ignored. If I remove the forward slash, the da...

Outsorting Check(rule) help

Hello Experts,A new outsorting check(rule) will need to be developed to check during a final billing procedure each contract/installation's number of service days in the billing period, if the number of service days exceeds the numeric value set in t...

HELP PLEASE - BP Replication Rrom ECC to CRM Error

We've got a major BP Replication error occurring in our production system.The initial error we were getting was:The error is "Error for validity periods of addresses/Error_Time Dependency_Addresses XXDEFAULT_ERROR/Validation error occurred: Module CR...

IS-U Implementation --> Impacts !

Hello everybody,Can you detail the impact will cause IS-U implementation under a company which already is working with SAP R/3. Also, can you detail the impacts filtered by IS-U module (CS, DM, BI&IN, FI-CA).Thanks in advance.Fernando.

Inter company data exchange

Hi Guys, I m currently going to work on IDE but have no idea about this except the introduction? can anybody share some use ful documnets , code samples, function modules and all the whole world i need to know about inter company data exchange. Thank...

Restrict users from listing certain BP/CA using FPL9

Dear ExpertsI would like to restrict certain users from listing the open items of certain business partners and contract accounts using FPL9. Is anyone aware of the procedure ? Please helpBest Regards Venkat

Error in Invoice posting

hi everyone, while posting invoice after billing we are facing the following error :Account 630020 1000 not defined for tax postingsMessage no. >0124DiagnosisYou attempted to post tax to a G/L account to which no tax postings are permitted.Proce...

Transaction EL40 / EL41

Hi,I need help with transaction EL40. Any documentation would be useful.Basically I have created few installations with multiple devices attached to it. Now I need to assign street root sequence for those devices so that it will update entries in tab...

IS-U Invoicing Job

Hello all,I am very new to ISU modules and i have some questions about the Invoicing job from Batch Job perspective. Lets say that , we run a Invoicing Batch Job named Zinvoicing_job daily, and the batch report shows that they produced total volume o...

Parallel Invoicing (EA26) & ODN

Hi,We are working with Italian Utility,They are having problem in Parallel Invoicing (EA26).In parallel Invoicing official document numbers are not getting generated in sequence.They are using SAP 4.72 .Kindly suggest the solution to rectify the prob...

Resolved! Error trying to edit Welcome letter EFRM

I got this error when i use Ts EFRM. When i try to edit IS_U_MOVE_IN_WELCOME_LETTER_IC its says this:IS_U_MOVE_IN_WELCOME_LETTER_IC is a link in client 000.I have to edit the original, what sould i do?.Thank you.

Custom Billing Variant

Hello Experts!!!!A custom billing variant program is needed to determine IF there is an active pipesafe contract (division 05) on the customer account. The custom billing variant will be added to the rate steps of the quarterly rate. Copy existing st...

Resolved! principal difference between an Idoc and a Switch document.

Hellowhat is the principal difference between an Idoc and a Switch document.Thanks

Print Work Bench

Hello All,I was asked to work for a SAP ISU (ABAP) support project in the Print Work Bench area by my companyCan some one help me , Generally do we have more support tickets in PWB after post go live ? Should I choose another support area...I am of t...

Resolved! EMIGALL - PS_RETURN

I am trying to post a Tax Return in emigall. I am mocking up the data and I get the migration to run without error. I can see the records in DFMCA_RETURN and DFMCA_FORMS. The problem I have is, where did the data go with my field values? I entered 3 ...

0137 "Formal error: Payment difference given without items to be cleared".

i have problem bapi BAPI_CTRACCTRCTACCNT_PAYBYCARDi use a bapi to select the open items (BAPI_CTRACCONTRACTACCOUNT_GOI) and then Via the component ITEM_ACTIVATED, you can select the items to be cleared. In the component CLEARING_AMOUNT specify th...

Meter Reading Estimation

Hi All,I've an issue related to the Estimation of MeterReadings for the Domestic customers.My client has migrated the move in readings in the system, however there are cases in which the actual move in reading is different from the Migrated reading....

ISU Billing-Tcode EA29

Hi All,My client is facing the following problem in Billing.The processing efficiency of ( mass bill print activity) Tcode:EA29 has reduced drastically , the current time taken is much higher (virtually 4 to 5 times) as compared to previous processin...

Wrong ABLSTAT displayed after adjustment reversal

Hi Experts,I've a problem with the following case:I've made a move-out on an installation at the end of a billing period, after the acquisition of the periodic meter readings (01). The system suppressed my 01 and replaced it with a 03 MR results (I c...

problem with spool generation

Hi for invoicing ,when running mass processing system creating spool (based on application form given in contract account )due to this system performance is very slow . i need to avoid this spool generation.please suggest..Regards,Rajkumar.

Search for invoices in ERDK

Hi,I am searching in the ERDK table for a doc number (OPBEL) which exists in the DFKKTHI table.The problem is that I cannot find all of the invoices in ERDK which exist in DFKKTHI.Why is that? Do all invoces appear in ERDK?Thanks