Purchase Order Table Control

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am trying to change the columns in the table control of the purchase order screen (ME21N) but cant seem to able to do it,

To be more detailed I clicked on the "Configuration" button of the table control, clicked on "Administrator" and made the fields "plant/MEPO1211-WERKS" and "storage location/MEPO1211-RESLO" visible ( unchecked the fields ) but the table control does not change, I have activated the changes even created a new variant for the settings but no changes are seen, I have tried to make the other fields visible/invisible but no changes are seen.

Help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[RichHeilman · Accepted solution]

Please check out the following note.....

SAP Note No. 120901                          22.08.2005           Page 1          
________________________________________________________________________                                                                                
Number              120901                                                        
Version             5 from 08.06.2001                                             
Status              Released for Customer                                         
Set on              07.06.2001                                                                                
Language            EN                                                            
Master language     DE                                                            
Short text          Hiding of columns by table control is not possible                                                                                
Responsible         SAP AG                                                        
Component           MM-PUR                                                        
                    Purchasing                                                    
________________________________________________________________________                                                                                
Long text                                                                                
Symptom                                                                           
Using the table control configuration, you are unable to hide the                 
columns on the overview screens of the purchasing documents (purchase             
requisition, purchase order, request for quotation, outline agreement).                                                                                
Additional key words                                                              
ME21, ME51, ME41, ME31, ME31K, ME31L, ME21N, ME22N, ME23N, OMF4                                                                                
Cause and prerequisites                                                           
The hiding of fields was and still is controlled by Customizing.Here,             
you can - with the help of the field selection key - make fields                  
invisible (for example, for a particular document type). This setting             
overrides the individual table control setting.                                                                                
Solution                                                                          
It is currently not possible to hide columns selectively for each user.           
Instead, SAP recommends that you shift the columns you do not require in          
the table control to the far right and save this setting.                                                                                

If this was helpful, please award points accordingly . Thanks.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[Former Member]

Hi Nagaraju,

I had the same problem when I was trying to create a Stock Transport Order.

I solved it:  SPRO-->MM-->Purchasing-->Purchase Order-->Set Up Stock Transport Order--> Set Up StockTransfer Between Storage Locations --> Activate Stock Transfer Between Storgae Locations.

I hope you find it useful

Regards,

Daniel

[RichHeilman]

You may want to check into the configuartion via transaction SPRO.

Go Materials Management>Purchasing>Purchase Order-->Define Screen Layout at Document Level, click ME21N.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[Former Member]

I have already done that(Gone to SPRO >> ....>> change PO layout >> ME21N ), It hasn't helped,

All the fields are marked as optional.

[weekend_01]

hi, what is next?

[Former Member]

Thank You, Rich for the information,

But what I want to do is to display two fields "plant/MEPO1211-WERKS" and "storage location/MEPO1211-RESLO" which are currently hidden. I have checked out the "Changing the PO layout" in SPRO but it hasn't helped a lot , All the fields seem to be optional.

Thank you once again for the info, but my problem remains unsolved.

[EVANS]

same problem