You use Business Partner interface elements to search for, display or process business partners.

There are two tabs for processing business partners in the business partner dialog.

The tab for the General Data can contain the following tab pages:

• Address
• Address Overview
• Identification
• Control
• Payment Transactions
• Status

You can always use fast entry to call up a business partner via the application toolbar.

You can also create a new business via pushbuttons. You can switch by means of pushbuttons from one business partner to the other business partners that have you have just processed.

If you do not use the full screen locator, the last-maintained business partner is selected when you restart the business partner dialog after having left it. In addition, the last-maintained role and tab page are displayed.

In the area above the tab, you can always see the following during processing:

• the business partner number
• the business partner category (as an icon)
• the business partner role

In addition, the mode in which you are working is displayed in the title bar.

For more information on creating and processing business partners, see

You can switch to other roles without exiting the processing of the given business partner.

General data and relationships for a business partner are displayed and processed in separate tabs, but are saved together. You can navigate by means of a pushbutton to the dialog for the relationships.

You can display a change history for the following objects:

• Partner
• Field

You can also display a history according to periods.