2543156 - Phone Number Field Contains Alphabetic Characters

You are able to save Alphabets in Phone Number field.

SAP Cloud for Customer

1. Go to Customers work center.
2. Go to Accounts view.
3. Open Account 123(123 is the Account Id).
4. Click Edit.
5. In the Phone field, enter alphabetic letters for example: ABCDEFGHIJ.
6. Save the changes.

The Phone number is saved successfully and the system does not throw any error or warning.

The Alphanumeric or Alphabetical values are valid and indeed required in some cases.

Especially in US, Alphanumerical Phone Numbers have established as they are more convenient to remember and could have a better recognition value than Numerical ones.
For example: A Customer support number could be advertised as follows:
Alpha: 0040-CUSTSUPPORT
Numerical: 0040-28787877678

The system only checks the entry for special characters such as "<>.,!§% &(@€". If you enter these characters the system will remove them from the telephone-number field as they are not valid.

Alphanumeric values will remain in the field as they are valid components of Phone Numbers.

The is the expected System behavior.

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