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2708745 - Contact Peson in Expense Report

Symptom

You want to know the meaning of Contact in Expense Report.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign All versions

Reproducing the Issue

Go to Travel and Expenses work center and view Expense Reports.

Open an expense report, there is a user name in Contact Field, but you have no idea why this user is the contact of this expense report.

Cause

The field “Contact” shows the content of the so called “auditor field”.
When is this “auditor field” updated during save of an expense report?
When an auditor (= a user who has auditor rights, i.e. who has work center FIN_TRAVELEXPENSES and work center view FIN_EXPENSEREPORTS assigned performs on of the following actions on the Expense Report:
Submit an expense report on behalf for audit
Accept an expense report during audit
Withdraw Audit Result, i.e. perform any change of an Expense Report that is in Status Pending Approval, that sets the status back to Pending Audit, e.g. change of posting date.

Keywords

Expense Reports, Contact, 联系人 , KBA , AP-ERM-ER , Expense Report , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions