Change PO status text and button text , SRM 7.0

[Former Member]

Hi ,

We have a requirement to change the text for 'SAVED' status of PO. We want it to be changed to 'HELD' .

Also on the PO creation screen , there is a button 'SAVE' to save the PO. We want to change the text of button to HOLD.

Any pointers on how this can be achieved ?

Thx-

Harmeet.

[Former Member]

To change the label for the "save" button for PO, you can enhance the following:

Web dynpro component: FPM_OIF_COMPONENT

Component configuration: /SAPSRM/WDCC_FPM_OIF_PO_PURCH

Label attribute for button: Save

But to change the text for a status you might need to consider more. There are several places where the status is showing up, e.g. POWL active query, query result, PO application top panel, PO application "Tracking" tab, etc. You would also have to consider the consistency of status display among different document types, such as Shopping Cart, PO Response, Confirmation, when they line up in POWL. Do you really want PO to say "Held" while others say "Saved"?

[Former Member]

Thanks JY. That really helped.

Regarding the consistency, I agree with you . And I am looking forward to change the status description in SAP table itself, so that it comes up same everywhere.

[Former Member]

Hi Jay,

Can you give me some pointers to change the status text of PO's universally in SRM system.?

[Former Member]

One of the most promising places I can think of is the following class/method where you can enhance to change the text for status I1009 from SAVED to HELD:

Class: /SAPSRM/CL_PDO_STATUS_HLPR

Method: /SAPSRM/IF_PDO_STATUS_HLPR~GET_HEADER_STATUS_BYGUID

This would at least fix your PO status on POWL search result.

[Former Member]

Hi JY,

I figured out that the actual status in SRM backend for 'Saved' PO's is 'Held' . I found this in TJ02T table. Even when I check the status of a 'Saved' PO in BBP_PD , it displays the status as 'HELD'. However on the portal, the status is saved.

Can you think of a config using which the display characteristic of status is also changed from 'Saved' to 'Held' ?

Thanks

[Former Member]

Can you think of a config using which the display characteristic of status is also changed from 'Saved' to 'Held' ? 

No. My understanding is that there is no configuration that centrally controls the status text. Worse, those status appear in different places might be controlled by different programs. So you would have to individually change them. One of the places is mentioned in my previous post.

[Former Member]

Thanks a lot JY. Seems we will have to live with status 'SAVED' . But I do wonder why SAP came up with this approach to show the status as SAVED, while actually saving it as HELD. In SRM 4.0 they did display as HELD on portal as well.

[Former Member]

I think SAP made an effort to change the status text from HELD to SAVED cross the board because to many customers, the term HELD might not be as intuitive as SAVED. And I also guessed that SAP had done some market research before deciding on the change.