SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2604861 - You are Reciving an Error While Creating Customer-Defined Document Types.

Symptom

You have tried defining a customer-defined document type beginning with the letter Z and see the error below
Error: ZXXXXXX is not a valid value for this field. Enter a valid value.

Environment

SAP Cloud for Customer

Reproducing the Issue

  • Go to the Business Configuration workcenter.
  • Go to the Implementation Projects view.
  • Select the Current Project.
  • Click on Open Activity List.
  • Select Fine Tune.
  • Search and open activity Customer-defined document types for attachments.
  • Select Add Row
  • Enter the Document Type Code as ZXXXXXX (where XXXXXX is the type code value)

You will see that there is an error.

Cause

Customer-defined document types for attachments support up to 5 characters in the type code definition, including Z. Any type code definition value entered by you, if exceeds the permissible limit, will result in the error.

Resolution

This is the expected system behavior.

Keywords

Document Type, Code attachments, limit ,characters , KBA , error , business configuration , document types , activity , LOD-CRM-ACT , Activities , LOD-CRM-PRO , Products , LOD-LE-CQP , Customer Quote Processing , LOD-LE-CQP-CO , Lean Sales Orders , How To

Product

SAP Cloud for Customer add-ins all versions ; SAP Cloud for Customer core applications all versions