SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3009016 - You are Unable to Find The Desired Extension field in the Adaptation Mode for Arithmetic Calculation

Symptom

You have created few extension fields on the Purchase Order  screen under Adaptation mode and want to add/create a calculated field using those extension fields but you are unable to find the desired extension fields for calculation.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1.  Go to Purchase Requests and Orders work center
  2. Select View Purchase Orders-> View All

  3. Navigate to Items Tab

  4. Open adaptation mode.

  5. In Items tab, select Business Context Purchase Order-Item

  6. Try to add a calculated field

  7. Enter the field type

  8. But you could not find the relevant extension fields for arithmetic calculation.

Cause

You have selected the wrong field type.

Always check the field type of the relevant fields used in the calculation rule.

Resolution

Please select the correct field type so that you can see all the available extension fields.

See Also

https://blogs.sap.com/2015/03/17/customer-specific-extension-fields/

Keywords

Extension fields, field type, calculated field, adaptation mode, extension field type , KBA , extension field type , calculated field , adaptation mode , SRD-SRM-PRO , Purchase Requests and Orders , AP-RC-UIF-RT-B , ByD HTML5 Client (not for Cloud for Customer) , AP-POP-PO , Purchase Order , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions