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3346469 - Filter by Column on OWL is Not Working

Symptom

While using German as logon language, filter by column on OWL is not working.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

We have taken Sales Orders as example and Order Type is an extension field.

Logon Language - English

  1. Go to Sales Orders work center. 
  2. Search for Sales Order ID.
  3. On Column Order Type filter by "eManager".

The results are correctly shown.

Logon Language - German

  1. Go to Sales Orders work center. 
  2. Search for Sales Order ID.
  3. On column Order Type filter by "eManager".

Nothing is returned.

Cause

In the above scenario Order Type is an extension field, it's not fetching data because the source language is in English.

Resolution

While using logon language as German, user can always filter by using Advance Filter it works as expected.

Keywords

Filter by column, Logon Language, Advanced Filter, German, Sales Order, eManager , KBA , filter by column , logon language , advanced filter , german , sales order , emanager , AP-RC-UIF-RT-B , ByD HTML5 Client (not for Cloud for Customer) , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions