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2920944 - Error: “Party needs to be maintained for role Employee Responsible” While Updating Installed Base Using DWB

Symptom

You want to update EmployeeResponsible_Party_ID field for Installed Base using DWB and you receive the below error while you try to do so:

“Party needs to be maintained for role Employee Responsible”

Environment

SAP Cloud For Customer

Reproducing the Issue

Export:

  1. Go To Data WorkBench
  2. Select Export
  3. Select Installed Base
  4. Export the required records

In the exported template remove the nonrequired fields, and update the EmployeeResponsible_Party_ID and save.

Import:

  1. Go to Data Workbench
  2. Select Import Individual Object
  3. Select update
  4. Select Installed Base object
  5. Import the above saved template.

 

Cause

Issue occurs as you have entered Employee ID instead of the Business Partner ID in the field EmployeeResponsible_Party_ID.

Resolution

To resolve the issue, use Business Partner ID instead of Employee ID and import.

Keywords

Update Installed Base,  EmployeeResponsible_Party_ID, Emplpoyee Responsible , KBA , LOD-CRM-INT-DWB , Data Workbench , Problem

Product

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