Field Status Customizing 

Use

When posting in the Funds Management (FM) feeder components the fields Commitment item, Funds center, Fund and if desired Earmarked funds, for the Funds Management account assignments, only appear if the field status is correspondingly maintained. The field status setting influences if 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. Exceptions are the object types maintenance order, SD order item, network header and network activity. The field status must be maintained for these object types so that the posting data can be updated into Funds Management.

If you want to enter the FM account assignment manually when posting, the fields in the coding block must be ready for input.

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 Financial Accounting Global Settings ® Document ® Line Item ® Controls ® Maintain field status variants .

In this step, you must only maintain the field status groups that contain financial transactions of type 30 (example: revenue accounts). For other groups, the fields are usually hidden.

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.

Materials Management

For detailed information, go to the Materials Management IMG and choose Purchasing ® Account Assignment ® Maintain Account Assignment Categories .

Human Resources (Payroll Accounting)

You can find more information about infotypes:

In the Personnel Administration IMG under Customizing User Interfaces ® Determines Screen Control for Cost Distribution.

In the Personnel Administration IMG under Interfaces and Integration ® Integration with Accounting ® Entering Funds Management Data.

In the Personnel Time Management IMG under Integrating Time Management with other SAP Applications ® Recording Cost Assignment Specifications.

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) You find further information on the information category 0017 Travel privileges in the Personnel Administration IMG under Adjusting the interfaces ® Define screen modification.

Travel Management

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

Plant Maintenance, SD, Project System

For further information, see the Funds Management IMG under Actual and Commitment Update / Integration ® Integration ® Maintain field status for the assignment of FM account assignments.