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2964616 - The message 'Field was saved successfully' appears when updating List Values for an Extension Field, but the changes are not saved.

Symptom

After updating the description of a value for a KUT list field, we click save then the message 'Field was saved successfully' appears. However, after the screen reloads the changes are not made as expected.

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Environment

SAP Cloud for Customer

Reproducing the Issue

This scenario applies to multiple Business Objects, in this example we use Sales Quotes.

  1. Go to the relevant work center.
  2. Start Adaptation.
  3. Within adaptation side panel, find the extension field you would like to edit.
  4. Edit field properties
  5. When in field definition, edit the field.
  6. Within List Values EC, change description from 'Test ABC' to 'Test DEF'.
  7. Click Save.
  8. The message 'Field was saved successfully' appears

After screen reloads the new description values are not saved.

Cause

This is an issue identified by our development team.

Resolution

The issue will be resolved in future release.

For now, you can use the following workaround:

  1. Open the field definition and edit the field.
  2. Select the Code List Value you would like to change.
  3. Within the 'Description for List Value' EC, you can update the field values.
  4. Save.

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Keywords

Edit, Field, KUT, Key User Tools, Extension, Field Definition, Update Values, List, Description, Label, Name, General Data, Lead, Sales Quote, Account, Ticket, Field changed successfully , KBA , AP-RC-UIF-FLX-FRW , UI Adaptation Framework , Problem

Product

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