Error Handling (SAP Library - Variant Configuration (LO-VC))

Error Handling

If you want to be able to trace the configuration process, you need to activate the trace function. You see the dialog box for activating the trace function when you process a configurable item, before you start the configuration (see Trace Function). However, this only applies if you run an IDoc in the foreground.

If errors occur, you see a trace message, even if you did not activate the trace function.

If processing was terminated due to errors, you see error messages that attempt to tell you why.

Here are some possible causes of error:

An incorrect characteristic name was transferred.

An incorrect characteristic value was transferred.

The characteristic value transferred does not match the format of the characteristic.

No value was transferred for a characteristic.

These errors may trigger other errors, so that part of the configuration cannot be processed.

Example

Processing is terminated because an incorrect characteristic name was transferred. This may mean that selection conditions are not fulfilled, so that objects for which configuration data is transferred are not included in the configuration. You see a trace message, telling you that instances in the configuration could not be processed. If you are processing the configuration in the background, processing is terminated. If you are processing the configuration in the foreground, you see a list of the input data that could not be processed. The program then assumes that you know about this data, and does not terminate.

You also see the configuration structure dialog box, which allows you to configure the configurable materials that were not processed.

If an incorrect value was entered for a characteristic, you see a dialog box containing the allowed values. You can then select one of these values for the characteristic.