Field Status Customizing

Use

When making a posting in the Funds Management (FM) feeder components, the fields for Funds Management account assignments Commitment item, Funds center, Fund and, if necessary, Earmarked funds will only appear if the field status is maintained accordingly. The field status setting influences whether the entry fields appear as optional or required fields or if no entry is possible.

Funds Management updating determines if and which account assignment information is required on the basis of the transaction used and the controlling of the commitment item, and irrespective of the definition of the field status.

The fields in the account assignment block should only accept input (as optional or required entry fields), if you want to manually enter FM account assignment elements when you make a posting. If you are using Account Assignment Derivation to ensure that FM account assignment elements are derived from other account assignments, you can hide these fields.

Note Note

Take note that the values determined using account assignment derivation only appear as default values when you make a posting and, if necessary, you can overwrite them, when the entry field is an optional entry field . If you flag a field as a required entry field, the system will require you to make a manual entry. This manual entry takes precedence over the value determined by account assignment derivation, as the standard settings prevent account assignment derivation from overwriting fields that already contain values.

If you want to ensure that values are only determined using account assignment derivation – as may be necessary in certain cases – you can do so by defining a derivation step that defines the attributes of the target field accordingly. For more information, see Controlling the Processing of Derivation Steps

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Features

You make the settings at various points in the IMGs for the relevant components.

Financial accounting

For further information, go to the Financial Accounting IMG and choose Start of the navigation path Financial Accounting Global Settings Next navigation step Document Next navigation step Line Item Next navigation step Controls Next navigation step Maintain Field Status Variants End of the navigation path .

Note Note

In this step, you must only maintain the field status definition groups for the G/L accounts that contain commitment items with financial transaction 30 (for example, revenue accounts). The corresponding fields should normally be hidden in G/L accounts that contain commitment items with a transaction other than 30.

If you want to reference earmarked funds when posting a payment, you must also designate the “Earmarked funds” additional account assignment as a required or optional entry.

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Materials Management

For detailed information, go to Customizing for Materials Management and choose Start of the navigation path Purchasing Next navigation step Account Assignment Next navigation step Maintain Account Assignment Categories. End of the navigation path

Human Resources

You can find more information about infotypes:

  • Cost distribution (0027)

    In Customizing for Personnel Administration, choose Start of the navigation path User Interfaces Next navigation step Determine Screen Control for Cost Distribution. End of the navigation path

  • Recurring payments and deductions (0014) and additional payments (0015)

    In the Personnel Administration IMG under Start of the navigation path Interfaces and Integration Next navigation step Integration with Accounting Next navigation step Entering Funds Management Data. End of the navigation path

  • Absences (2001) , Attendances (2002) , Substitution (2003) , Availabilities (2004) Overtime (2005) , Remuneration documents (2010)

    In Customizing for Personnel Time Management, under Start of the navigation path Integrating Time Management with Other SAP Applications Next navigation step Recording Cost Assignment Specifications End of the navigation path .

    Note Note

    If you have integrated use of Travel Management with Funds Management and do not distribute the travel expenses for an employee completely manually, the distribution takes place according to the cross-trip cost assignment value. This must be defined in at least one of the employee information categories (0027, subcategory 02, subcategory 01, 0001, 0017) For more information on the information category 0017 Travel privileges, see Customizing for Personnel Administration under Start of the navigation path Adjusting the Interfaces Next navigation step Define Screen Modification. End of the navigation path

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Travel Management

For more information on these Customizing settings, read Travel Management Integration .

Plant Maintenance, Sales and Distribution, Network

For more information, see Customizing for Funds Management Government under Start of the navigation path Actual and Commitment Update/Integration Next navigation step Integration Next navigation step Maintain Field Status for the Assignment of FM Account Assignments. End of the navigation path