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Hello All,

We have created the BP number for country in MDG and it has been reviewed and Activated but the BP number is not converted to the Vendor Number in ECC system.

We have analyzed and found the reason why the BP number is not replicated to ECC. This vendor is created for the Country “FO -Faroe Islands” , the time zone of the country FO is CETW. But the value is not available in SAP standard table TTZZ (Time Zone). Because of that reason we are receiving the error message as “Time zone CETW does not exist” while replicating the vendor from MDG to ECC.

To resolve this we need to use the T-code STZGC and the below entry needs to be deleted. For more details please check OSS # 1991501.

After we have deleted the entry CETW for country FO in T-code STZCG , then we have tried to edit the BP number MDG portal  to replicate the BP to ECC but we are unable to edit and save because of the error message “Supplier XXXX: A master record with value CETW does not exist for attribute Time zone”. This error is because entry deleted in T-code STZGC. When the BP is created in MDG portal the default time zone is set as CETW for this vendor and it is populating this error message.

To resolve this error we have used the T-code BP and  changed the time zone from CETW to WET for the BP number and saved. After this change again we have edited the BP and saved. After the BP change activation the BP number is successfully synchronized to ECC as a Vendor Master without any issues.

I hope this will help for  FO country code time zone issue in MDG.

Regards,

Sada

Issue:

When the approver finalize the CR # 26061 in MDGS for the Vendor Master # 12345 block the change are not flown to MP1. Based on this we have

verified the logs in SLG1 the error message as "An address with GUID 53D942C0341D3580E10080010A785401 does not exist for business partner

12345" and the Message no. R11130.

Also we have verified the table BUT000 for the BP # 12345 and found that it has mapped to GUIID: 5106D20CF5951020E10080000A785429. When we

try to search the GUIID: 53D942C0341D3580E10080010A785401 in table BUT000. No entry found.

Solution:

Based on this we have found the OSS # 1550109 and implemented and aalso make sure you execute the report MDG_BS_BP_ADDRESS_GUID_2STA this will adjust the staging table data and resolved my issue.

Hope this might be useful.

Regards,

Sada

Issue:

Whenever the users update the Block indicator in MDG by CR # XXXXX the data had not flown to ECC after activation of the change requests.  Based on this we verified the log details in T-code MDS_PPO2 we are able to see the error message as “ Vendor 12345 already exists for function VN” . The error message number is F2 631.

Solution :

We  have start investigate the issue and found few things.

Whenever if we want to block the vendor master for all company code and purchase org then only we need to select  as below (screen shot: 1) , else we need to select the specific company code (screen shot : 2) for  our testing purpose we have selected the Co. code 1085 and 1089 of vendor # 1234 in Company code data tab  and created the CR # 12345.

After the activation of CR # 12345 the company code block data has flown to ECC successfully (screen shot: 3) and the same way it is worked for Posting Block for all company codes and Purchasing organization in MDG to ECC. Hence the check box should not be selected in both /all the tabs (Supplier General Data and Co.Code (or) Supplier General Data and purchasing organization).

FYI, per standard whenever all the tabs  (posting block for all company code and purchasing org, Company code and purchasing org posting block) are maintained the data is not flowing from MDG to ECC.

Screen shot : 1

Screen shot : 2

Screen Shot : 3

Hope this will be useful those who are new to MDGS.

Regards,

Sada

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Questions

• Q: Is it recommended to copy data model BP?

• Q: Is it recommended to copy existing user interfaces?

• Q: How can I start the user interface customizing configurator?

• Q: Why does the context based adaptation (CBA) not change the layout of the overview page (OVP)?

• Q: Why are recent changes applied to the user interface not visible for other users?

• Q: I want to hide / show a UIBB dynamically via CBA. Why doesn’t it work?

• Q: How can I define another search method as default?

• Q: I want to prevent deletion of Bank Accounts still being required by business processes

Answers

• Q: Is it recommended to copy data model BP?

It is not recommended to create a copy of the data model BP.

The existing data model can be easily enhanced in various ways:

• Adding new fields to an existing entity type.
• Adding new tables as type 4 entity to an existing entity type.
• Adding new type 1 entities to the data model.

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• Q: Is it recommended to copy existing user interfaces?

It is not recommended to copy existing user interfaces.

The existing user interfaces can be easily enhanced in various ways without the need of a copy or a modification of the pre-defined user interfaces. A copy might destroy the binding to improvements and/or corrections made by SAP.

• Adding and/or removing fields from the pre-defined user interface can be done by customizing the user interface.
• The user interface can be adapted dynamically using context based adaptations.
• Enhancing the user interface with custom UIBBs can be done using the enhancement functionality of FPM.

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• Q: How can I start the user interface customizing configurator?

There are different ways to start the customizing configurator for user interfaces:

1. Favorite in the SAP Menu
   1. Logon to your MDG Hub system.
   2. Create a new entry in you SAP Menu Favorite List.
   3. Choose Web Dynpro Application.
   4. Define the Web Dynpro Application as CUSTOMIZE_COMPONENT.
   5. Define any Description.
2. Configure the own user as FPM Configuration Expert
   1. Logon to your MDG Hub system.
   2. In the top-menu bar choose System > User Profile > Own Data.
   3. Switch to tab Parameters.
3. Enter Parameter IDFPM_CONFIG_EXPERT and set its value to X.
   1. Save the changes.

If you now start any user interface that is based upon FPM, you’ll notice two new buttons in the upper right area of the user interface. Both are usable to start the customizing configurator. The screenshot below uses the search for business partners as example.

[TODO: Screenshot]

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• Q: Why does the context based adaptation (CBA) not change the layout of the overview page (OVP)?

The layout of an OVP can only be changed by CBAs during the startup of the application. It is not possible to change the OVP (e.g. the sequence of UIBBs) using a CBA during UI round-trips. CBAs can only change the layout of single UIBBs for each round-trip.

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• Q: Why are recent changes applied to the user interface not visible for other users?

The actual UI that is being displayed to a user in the web browser is determined from various components of the UI configuration:

• Personalization
• Enhancements
• Context Based Adaptations
• Base Configuration

The general rule is that the personalization is the strongest component. This is best explained with an example:

The base configuration defines the overview page as a list of UIBBs. Since a user does not want to scroll, he or she creates a personalization of the page introducing a stacking of the UIBBs in tab-strips. A UI designer decides to create a context based adaptation that sets a single UIBB to “hidden and excluded from event loop”. All users not having a personalization will not see this UIBB anymore. The user with the personalization set is unaffected by this change. This is because the UIBBs that are hidden and excluded from event loop still belong to the OVP. They can be added to the OVP using personalization. Since the user has created a personalization that shows the UIBB (the personalization was created before the CBA), the UIBB is still visible. To exclude the UIBB you must either reset personalization or delete the UIBB in the CBA.

System administrators might use the ABAP Web Dynpro application WD_ANALYZE_CONFIG_USER to check and/or reset user personalization centrally.

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• Q: I want to hide / show a UIBB dynamically via CBA. Why doesn’t it work?

Most likely you tried to control its visibility by adapting the according attribute within an OVP component configuration, called “Hidden Element”. Or you might have decided to create a new CBA configuration that in comparison to its base configuration just adds the UIBB concerned to the page’s list of UIBBs. Both approaches will not lead to a dynamic visibility of the UIBBs.

From within the application configuration navigate to the component configuration of the relevant UIBB itself, not of the OVP. There you create a new CBA, maintain all relevant dimensions’s values as you wish and set the checkbox labelled “Hide UIBB” at the bottom of the “Add Adaption” popup.

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• Q: How can I define another search method as default?

You can define the standard search method on the search screen via customizing for the OVP component configuration. Please find below a description at the example of the Vendor-like-UI.

1. Create a customizing for the OVP component configuration BS_OVP_SP_VL
   1. On the Search screen click right mouse button and choose ‘Technical help …'
   2. Click on the link for the Application Configuration BS_OVP_SP_VL
   3. Select the configuration name of the OVP, for Vendor-like UI this is BS_SP_VL_OV
   4. Move to customizing mode by selecting ‘Additional functions -> Create / Edit customizing’.
2. Exchange feeder configuration BS_BP_DQUERY_DB_ADDRESS_ATTRIB by any other search feeder configuration available, for instance BS_BP_DQUERY_DB_BP_GENERAL (BP general attributes)
   1. Press the ‘Edit’ button
   2. Within the navigation pane on the left side select the initial page
   3. In the Overview section change the ‘Config ID’ of the Search Criteria UIBB from ‘BS_BP_DQUERY_DB_ADDRESS_ATTRIB’ to another configuration. You can search for other relevant configurations by entering ‘BS_BP_DQUERY_*’. Select the relevant configuration.
3. Adapt wire setting that previously connected BS_BP_DQUERY_DB_ADDRESS_ATTRIB with result list feeder by exchanging BS_BP_DQUERY_DB_ADDRESS_ATTRIB with the same configuration ID you used in step 2.
   1. Within the Overview section move from tab ‘Page Schema’ to tab ‘Wire schema'
   2. You will get a message ‘UIBB key is not valid’ for the element ‘Wire: List BS_SP_VL_QUERY_RESULT’. You have to enter the new configuration selected in step 2c into field ‘Source Component’.

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• Q: I want to prevent deletion of Bank Accounts still being required by business processes?

MDG does not support such a check out-of-the box. It is possible to trigger such a check from MDG. However very often business processes do not run on the MDG system but on seperate ERP systems. The following steps describe how you can enhance MDG in a way that these checks are triggered from there and decide whether a Bank Account can be deleted in MDG or not:

1. Create a Custom Handler Class. Please follow the respective How-to-Guide which you can also find in SCN on the Extensibility Guide for MDG.
2. Implement method CHECK_AUTHORITY_MASS_BY_ENTITY and trigger the checks from there. Fill table ET_KEY_NO_AUTHORITY for bank account which must no be deleted. In the UI to change customers / suppliers the delete icon will be disabled for the respective bank accounts.

Pleas keep in mind that this method will be called multiple times during each roundtrip. Therefore it is important to take care on performance of the checks. We also recommend to buffer results wherever possible to avoid unnecessary execution of the checks.

Questions

1. Q: Is it recommended to copy data model BP?

2. Q: Is it recommended to copy existing user interfaces?

3. Q: How can I start the user interface customizing configurator?

4. Q: Why does the context based adaptation (CBA) not change the layout of the overview page (OVP)?

5. Q: Why are recent changes applied to the user interface not visible for other users?

6. Q: I want to hide / show a UIBB dynamically via CBA. Why doesn’t it work?

Answers

1. Q: Is it recommended to copy data model BP?

   It is not recommended to create a copy of the data model BP.

   The existing data model can be easily enhanced in various ways:

   • Adding new fields to an existing entity type.
   • Adding new tables as type 4 entity to an existing entity type.
   • Adding new type 1 entities to the data model.
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2. Q: Is it recommended to copy existing user interfaces?

   It is not recommended to copy existing user interfaces.

   The existing user interfaces can be easily enhanced in various ways without the need of a copy or a modification of the pre-defined user interfaces. A copy might destroy the binding to improvements and/or corrections made by SAP.

   • Adding and/or removing fields from the pre-defined user interface can be done by customizing the user interface.
   • The user interface can be adapted dynamically using context based adaptations.
   • Enhancing the user interface with custom UIBBs can be done using the enhancement functionality of FPM.
   top

3. Q: How can I start the user interface customizing configurator?

   There are different ways to start the customizing configurator for user interfaces:

   If you now start any user interface that is based upon FPM, you’ll notice two new buttons in the upper right area of the user interface. Both are usable to start the customizing configurator.

   1. Favorite in the SAP Menu
      1. Logon to your MDG Hub system.
      2. Create a new entry in you SAP Menu Favorite List.
      3. Choose Web Dynpro Application.
      4. Define the Web Dynpro Application as CUSTOMIZE_COMPONENT.
      5. Define any Description.
   2. Configure the own user as FPM Configuration Expert
      1. Logon to your MDG Hub system.
      2. In the top-menu bar choose System > User Profile > Own Data.
      3. Switch to tab Parameters.
      4. Enter Parameter IDFPM_CONFIG_EXPERT and set its value to X.
      5. Save the changes.
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4. Q: Why does the context based adaptation (CBA) not change the layout of the overview page (OVP)?

   The layout of an OVP can only be changed by CBAs during the startup of the application. It is not possible to change the OVP (e.g. the sequence of UIBBs) using a CBA during UI round-trips. CBAs can only change the layout of single UIBBs for each round-trip.

   top

5. Q: Why are recent changes applied to the user interface not visible for other users?

   The actual UI that is being displayed to a user in the web browser is determined from various components of the UI configuration:

   The general rule is that the personalization is the strongest component. This is best explained with an example:

   The base configuration defines the overview page as a list of UIBBs. Since a user does not want to scroll, he or she creates a personalization of the page introducing a stacking of the UIBBs in tab-strips. A UI designer decides to create a context based adaptation that sets a single UIBB to “hidden and excluded from event loop”. All users not having a personalization will not see this UIBB anymore. The user with the personalization set is unaffected by this change. This is because the UIBBs that are hidden and excluded from event loop still belong to the OVP. They can be added to the OVP using personalization. Since the user has created a personalization that shows the UIBB (the personalization was created before the CBA), the UIBB is still visible. To exclude the UIBB you must either reset personalization or delete the UIBB in the CBA.

   System administrators might use the ABAP Web Dynpro application WD_ANALYZE_CONFIG_USER to check and/or reset user personalization centrally.

   • Personalization
   • Enhancements
   • Context Based Adaptations
   • Base Configuration
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6. Q: I want to hide / show a UIBB dynamically via CBA. Why doesn’t it work?

   Most likely you tried to control its visibility by adapting the according attribute within an OVP component configuration, called “Hidden Element”. Or you might have decided to create a new CBA configuration that in comparison to its base configuration just adds the UIBB concerned to the page’s list of UIBBs. Both approaches will not lead to a dynamic visibility of the UIBBs.

   From within the application configuration navigate to the component configuration of the relevant UIBB itself, not of the OVP. There you create a new CBA, maintain all relevant dimensions’s values as you wish and set the checkbox labelled “Hide UIBB” at the bottom of the “Add Adaption” popup.

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Hello All,

We have created the BP number for country in MDG and it has been reviewed and Activated but the BP number is not converted to the Vendor Number in ECC system.

We have analyzed and found the reason why the BP number is not replicated to ECC. This vendor is created for the Country “FO -Faroe Islands” , the time zone of the country FO is CETW. But the value is not available in SAP standard table TTZZ (Time Zone). Because of that reason we are receiving the error message as “Time zone CETW does not exist” while replicating the vendor from MDG to ECC.

To resolve this we need to use the T-code STZGC and the below entry needs to be deleted. For more details please check OSS # 1991501.

After we have deleted the entry CETW for country FO in T-code STZCG , then we have tried to edit the BP number MDG portal  to replicate the BP to ECC but we are unable to edit and save because of the error message “Supplier XXXX: A master record with value CETW does not exist for attribute Time zone”. This error is because entry deleted in T-code STZGC. When the BP is created in MDG portal the default time zone is set as CETW for this vendor and it is populating this error message.

To resolve this error we have used the T-code BP and  changed the time zone from CETW to WET for the BP number and saved. After this change again we have edited the BP and saved. After the BP change activation the BP number is successfully synchronized to ECC as a Vendor Master without any issues.

I hope this will help for  FO country code time zone issue in MDG.

Regards,

Sada