SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3321241 - Name Formats are not Displayed as Expected in Personnel Administration

Symptom

You have maintained the Business Partner Name Format in the below format:

First Name + Last Name

But system still displays the business partner as First Name + Last Name with academic titles.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Business Configuration work center.
  2. Select the Implementation Project and select Open Activity List button.
  3. Go to activity General Partners.
  4. Search and open General Business Data activity.
  5. Select Maintain Name Formats.
  6. Maintain as First Name and Last Name.

Check in the Personnel Administration work center:

  1. Go to Personnel Administration.
  2. Search for employee XYZ (where XYZ stands for an actual employee ID in the system).
  3. The employee's name is displayed with academic titles.

Cause

Employee is a business partner and under the Business Partner work center, for employee XYZ, additional field Country/Region for Name Format is set to different country.

Resolution

  1. Go to Business Partner Data.
  2. Select Business Partners.
  3. Find employee XYZ.
  4. Click Additional Field Names.
  5. Set field Country/Region for Name Format to required country.

Keywords

Name Format, Business Partner , KBA , AP-BP-BP , BusinessByDesign: Business Partner , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions