Symptom
You are creating a Direct Cost Project and want to assign a customer, but the Customer field is missing.
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to the Project Management Work Center.
- Select New Project in the Common Tasks.
- Select Project Type as Direct Cost Project .
- Fill mandatory details.
- Navigate to the third step Define Project, then you notice that the Customer field is missing.
Cause
To view the Customer field for the Direct Cost project type, the business feature for creating project invoices based on actuals for internal projects needs to be scoped.
Resolution
- Go to the Business Configuration Work Center.
- Go to the Implementation Projects View.
- Select your implementation project.
- Click Edit Project Scope.
- Click Next till the Questions step of the project.
- Select Scoping Element Project Management > Project Planning and Execution >Projects.
- Select the question 'Do you want to create project invoices based on project actual for internal projects?'
- Click Next.
- Click Accept Preselected Answers.
- Click Save.
Keywords
Customer field missing, Direct cost project, Do you want to create project invoices based on project actual for internal projects. , KBA , customer field missing in direct cost pr , customer field missing , AP-PRO , Project Processing , How To
Product
SAP Business ByDesign all versions
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