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.
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
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 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.
Materials Management
For detailed information, go to the Materials Management IMG and choose Purchasing
® Account Assignment ® Maintain account assignment categories.Human Resources
You can find more information about infotypes:
In the Personnel Administration IMG under Customizing User Interfaces
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, Sales and Distribution, Network
For further information, see the Funds Management Government IMG under Actual and commitments updating/Integration
® Integration ® Maintain field status for the assignment of FM account assignments.