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2688906 - Product Category Cannot Be Changed for Material

Symptom

You have created a material however you are unable to select Product Category as the field is locked.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Product Portfolio work center.
  2. Click on By Materials View.
  3. Select the Product.
  4. Click on Edit.

Here you can see that the Product Category field is locked.

Cause

The product category cannot be changed if the material was set as a template material.

Resolution

The system works as expected.

In order to revert the scenario, you can set any other material with the same category as template. To proceed, you can follow the below steps:

  1. Go to Product Data work center.
  2. Select Material Templates view.
  3. Create a new product category.
  4. Set that as material template and remove the original product category ID as material template.

 

Keywords

Product, Template , KBA , product category, material template , SRD-FIN-INV , Inventory , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions