SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3347191 - No Product Category Description in Purchase Requests - Open Tasks view.

Symptom

You navigate to the Purchase Requests - Open Tasks view, and you notice that you cannot add Product Category Description via Adaptation / Personalisation mode.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Purchase Requests and Orders work center.
  2. Go to Purchase Requests view.
  3. Set Filter to "Open Tasks".
  4. Navigate to Profile button in top right corner.
  5. Click "Key user settings".
  6. Click "Start Adaptation Mode".
  7. Click "Purchase Requests" in the Adaptation menu.
  8. Notice that "Product Category Description" is not available to be selected as a column value in this view.

Cause

  • This is the current system behavior.
  • This field Product Category Description" is not selectable via Adaptation / Personalization mode when in the view "Open Tasks".
  • This field is available in the views such as "All Purchase Requests" in the Purchase Requests view.

Resolution

  • Should you need any new enhancement added to the software, feel free to directly submit your request for this feature to the correct decision makers at SAP via Customer Influence.
  • The Customer Influence site, https://influence.sap.com , allows customers to log Improvement Requests themselves and have the ability to work directly with our technology and development group.

Keywords

 Product Category Description; Adaptation Mode; Personalization Mode; Purchase Requests; Open Tasks , KBA , AP-PRP , Purchase Request Processing , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions