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Function documentationCopy Relationships from Licensor

 

You can use this function to copy the business partners from the relationships in the licensor's master data to the payment distribution in a license acquisition contract. This is useful, for example, if you wish to distribute payment to a licensor's heirs.

Prerequisites

  • You have activated the multiple payees function.

  • You have defined the business partner relationship category to be used in this operation and linked a specific payee type to the category. See Customizing for Customer Relationship Management under Start of the navigation path Industry-Specific Solutions Next navigation step Media Next navigation step Intellectual Property Management Next navigation step Transactions Next navigation step Settings for IPM Transactions Next navigation step Define Relationship Category for Multiple Payees End of the navigation path.

Features

Choose the Copy Relationships pushbutton to copy the business partners from the relationships in the business partner master data.

There are two options:

  • If no line is selected in the payment distribution when pressing the Copy Relationships pushbutton, the relationships in the licensor's master data are considered.

  • If a payee in the payment distribution is selected when pressing the Copy Relationships pushbutton, the relationships in master data of this payee are considered.

The Copy Relationships pushbutton is only enabled if you have made the settings in Customizing described above. These settings allow the system to determine the business partner relationship category the system uses when copying relationships. In addition the default payee type is determined based on the settings.

Note Note

You can specify more than one business partner relationship in Customizing activity Define Relationship Category for Multiple Payees (see path above). In this case, the system allows you to choose which category you would like to use when you copy the relationships from the licensor.

End of the note.

The system only copies business partners to the payment distribution who do not have other business partners directly related to them. For example, if Business Partner A is an heir of the licensor but has Business Partner B as an heir, the system does not copy Business Partner A to the payment distribution.

Example

You wish to set up the system to copy the heirs of a licensor to the payment distribution. In Customizing, you create a relationship category Has the Heir and assign the payee type Is_Heir to the category. When you choose Copy Relationships, the system copies all business partners that are related to the licensor or selected business partner through the Has the Heir category to the payment distribution as payees.

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Multiple Payees