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Function documentationOutbound Processing Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Manual Selection and Distribution

Valid-from or validity area

Check box with individual, block or total selection options.

Y You can display the condition table

You can select the (reduction) output category and, if required, the target system

Note

any deviating output categories (reduced output)

a logical system; if the field remains empty, the output is sent to all systems defined in the partner agreement.

Automatic Selection and Distribution

Special Features of Outbound Processing

Filter and Distribution Function

E2KOMG contains (almost) all fields that can be used as key fields from condition tables.

E1KOMG extends to important fields from the condition header (Usage, application, table number, condition type, retail promotion number,...)

E1KOMG extends to fields for conditions with reference (for example, for contracts, info records) = (Purchasing document category, type, purchasing group,...)

Significance of VAKEY in the E1KOMG segment

The key fields in a condition table often contain the actual recipient data for dispatching conditions. These fields are defined in code in VAKEY in the condition header. The E1KOMG segment contains this data uncoded; it can therefore be used for filter and distribution functions by using standard ALE functions. As the E1KOMG must be firmly defined and cannot be extended to customer-specific key fields (XKONG), these fields must be transferred into the target system via VAKEY. For this reason the VAKEY is also included in the segment. In Outbound processing:

The vakey is restructured from the modified KOMG structure and is transferred into the VAKEY and VAKEY_LONG (Rel4.0) fields in the E1KOMG structure.

In inbound processing:

This procedure means that the field new key assignments offered from the ALE layer can not be used for conversion rules in inbound and outbound processing for the E1KOMG segment, since the content of the vakey must also be converted with it. This cannot be done however with the current methods available in the conversion rules (COMBINE or GROUP). These new key assignments must be carried out via customer functions in inbound or outbound processing as described above, whereby the vakey must be adapted accordingly.

Error handling

documents created with their processing statistics

Idoc segments with the data to be sent

only formally consistent conditions are transferred; the change pointer is set to ‘processed’

the status of the change pointer is not changed if the errors were from the system

Validity periods

the individually selected conditions are sent with their validity area

all validity periods where the to_date is > than today’s date are determined for each condition record number. These validity periods are sent (consistency between source and target system).

 

 

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