Commitment Item (SAP Library - Funds Management)

Commitment Item

Definition:

Commitment items represent the functional grouping of expenditures and revenues within a financial management area (FM area).

Use

You use commitment items in the standard variant, that is, the operative variant for an FM area. You can also use commitment items in other variants for alternative commitment item hierarchies.

For more information about using commitment items in an FM area, see Maintaining Commitment Items

Structure:

The attributes that you must define in the master record differ according to what you are using the commitment items for in the FM area. As a result, it is possible to adjust the fields in the commitment item master record to fit in with your preferences and requirements.

Field selection in the standard system

In the standard system, all fields are displayed in the commitment item master record. In a single-screen transaction, all additional fields are subdivided on tab pages.

For more information, see Fields in Commitment Item Master Record.

User-defined field selection

You can define the field selection for the standard system in your FM area to meet your own specific requirements. To do so, define a user-specific field selection string. In the field selection string, you define whether a field is a displayed field or an entry field (that is, a required or optional entry field). You can hide the fields for functions that you do not require.

For more information, see Maintaining Field Selection Strings.

Enhancing the standard system

The functions for commitment items in the standard system can be enhanced to meet the requirements of specific customers. The following enhancements can be used to maintain commitment items:

Enhancement	Features
FMMD0015	Checks name of commitment item when you create/change commitment item Control of fields as display variant Enters default values in fields
FMMD0016	Performs consistency check of values you enter, when you press ENTER Allows you to control what is output when an error occurs
FMMD0017	Additional tab page for user-defined fields in the master record (these fields are also available in Reporting and mass selection)
FMMD0018	Changes data records exported with the RFFMDBI81 export program

For more information, see the appropriate enhancement documentation, by choosing Tools ® ABAP Workbench ® Utilities ® Enhancements ® Definition (transaction SMOD).

Additional functions in the commitment item master record

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Change documents: Lists all changes made in the commitment item master record of the given FM area/fiscal year.

Long text: You can create or call up long text information for the commitment items.

For more information, see Maintaining Long Texts for Master Data.

FM area: You can change the current FM area.

If you are using classification for master data, you can maintain the classification of commitment items by choosing Extras ® Classification.

For more information, see Classification.

Recommendation

Take note that neither Reporting nor mass selection support the classification of commitment items in Funds Management. Therefore, it is recommended that you use enhancement FMMD0017 to convert your user-specific extras in commitment items.