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 Customer-Defined Fields

In BW you can also use the information in certain customer-defined fields. These fields can be transferred into InfoSources like other fields. The fields are customer-defined master data fields of:

  • Cost centers

  • Activity types

  • Business processes

  • Internal orders

Prerequisites

R/3

  • The customer-defined field has been defined in the R/3 source system by adding it to the customer include in the master data table.

  • The field has been added to the corresponding DataSource.

BW

  • A suitable InfoObject was created for the field.

  • This InfoObject has been defined as a navigation attribute for one of the following characteristics:

Object

Master data item (characteristic)

Cost center

0COSTCENTER

Activity type

0ACTTYPE

Business process

0ABCPROCESS

Internal order

0COORDER

  • The InfoObject for the customer field has been added to the communication structure for the InfoSource of the master data item.

  • The field has been transferred from the DataSource into the transfer structure of the master data InfoSource. The suitable InfoObject has been assigned to this field in the transfer rules.

Definition of Customer Fields in R/3:

You can add additional fields to master records of business processes, cost centers, and activity types. Maintenance of the added fields is possible on a special tab in the individual processing mode of the master data. These additional fields can be used in selection variants to select master data for deletion and for list display.

The following enhancements are available for this purpose:

  • COOMKS01 Customer Fields for Cost Center Master Data

  • COOMLA01 Customer Fields for Activity Type Master Data

  • COOMBP01 Customer Fields for Business Process Master Data

  • COOPA003 Customer Fields for Internal Order Master Data

For more information, refer to the SAP Library of the application under Financials B Controlling and then under:

  • Cost Center Accounting B Master Data in Cost Center Accounting B Cost Centers B Processing Cost Center Master Data B Cost Center Master Data

  • Cost Center AccountingBMaster Data in Cost Center AccountingBActivity TypesBProcessing Activity Type Master DataBActivity Type Master Data

  • Activity-Based CostingBMaster Data in Activity-Based CostingBBusiness ProcessesBMaintaining Business ProcessesBFields in Business Process Master Data

  • Internal OrdersBMaster DataBStructuring LayoutsBLayout in the Standard.