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3021997 - How to Define Required or Optional Customer and Supplier Account Groups (Business Partners) in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Symptom

  • How to change the Field Status for a Customer Account Group in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.
  • How to change the Field Status for a Supplier Account Group in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Open a Business Partner Fiori App e.g. Manage Customer Master Data App
  2. The current field status for a field is to be changed

Cause

Some additional validations can be defined via the Business Partner BADIs see KBA 3393719 - Business Partner BADIs in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, but these will only apply to the BP Fiori apps.

Resolution

  1. Open the Manage Your Solution App
  2. Open the SSCUI for Customer and/or Supplier field settings
    1. SSCUI 103050 Define Account Groups with Screen Layout (Customers)
    2. SSCUI 103127 Define Account Groups with Screen Layout (Supplier)
  3. Choose the Account Group
  4. Choose the facet to be updated
    1. For Customer Account groups these are General Data, Company Code and/or Sales Area data 
    2. For Supplier Account groups these are General Data, Company Code and/or Purchasing Org. data
  5. Select the field(s) to be amended and choose one of the following options

    "Suppress" = The field is not displayed when a supplier account is created.

    "Required entry" = The field requires an entry when creating a supplier account.

    "Optional entry" = An entry in the field is optional.

    "Display" = The field is display-only, no input is possible.

See Also

3393719 - Business Partner BADIs in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Keywords

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, S4_PC, S4_1C, X4BC, S4HC, S/4HC, Suppress, Required entry, Optional entry, Display, Field Setting, Field Status, 103050, Define Account Groups with Screen Layout (Customers), 103127,  Define Account Groups with Screen Layout (Supplier), Manage Business Partner Master Data, Manage Customer Master Data, Manage Supplier Master Data , KBA , LO-MD-BP , Business Partners , LO-MD-BP-CM , Customer Master , LO-MD-BP-VM , Vendor Master , LO-MD-FIO-VM , Fiori UI for Vendor Master , LO-MD-FIO-BP , Fiori UI for Business Partner , LO-MD-FIO-CM , Fiori UI for Customer Master , How To

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions