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Define And Assign Text Determination Procedures

The text types of a text object are grouped together in text determination procedures. You assign a text determination procedure using certain keys, for example, account group customer or sales document type.

The SAP System offers the text types of the corresponding text determination procedure for maintenance, for example, when you are editing a customer master record of the assigned account group customer or a sales document of the assigned sales document type.

In this menu option you set the following defaults:

To define a text determination procedure you have to set the following defaults for every text type:

If you select "yes", the text is duplicated from the reference. It can be changed, but needs more storage space. If you select "no", the text is copied from the reference, but cannot be changed.
Using the error group, you can mark texts as relevant for the incompletion log of the sales documents. If a relevant text of this text type is missing in the sales document, a note is included in the incompletion log.
Here, you indicate whether the existence of a text is obligatory, or whether the SAP System should only propose the text type.
In addition, you can indicate which texts the SAP System should display in a pop-up window in case of copying (for example, from the customer master record into a sales document).
For text determination in the sales & distribution documents, you assign an access sequence to the text types in the procedure. The access sequence defines how the SAP System is to search for the texts.
For the text object "customer master record", you do not specify access sequences since these texts are not copied but manually specified by the user.

Afterwards you assign the defined text determination procedures as follows:

Text object Key
Customer master record Account group
Sales document header Sales document type
Sales document item Item category
Delivery header Delivery type
Delivery item Item category
Billing header Billing type
Billing item Billing type
CAS CAS sales activity type

Note

Currently you cannot set up your own error groups for the incompletion log for texts in customizing.

In the standard SAP R/3 System, error group "50" is defined for texts. The incompletion log takes it into account if the texts are additionally characterized as required in the procedure.

Requirements

You can only include text types and access sequences in a procedure which you have defined beforehand (see the section "Define text types" and "Define access sequences").

Actions

1. Check to what extent you can use the text determination procedures contained in the standard SAP R/3 System.
2. Change the existing text determination procedures according to your needs or create new ones.
To do this, branch to the text determination procedures for a text object and display the texts in the procedure.
3. Assign the text determination procedures.
There are 2 ways to do this:
Here, you can carry out the assignment for the selected text determination procedure.
Here, the assignments are displayed for the account groups, the document types and item categories.

Transport

To initiate transport, select 'Text - Transport' in the initial screen.