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3357774 - Contract Start Date and Contract End Date Fields are Still Editabld After Relesed

Symptom

You have released a customer contract and notice that the Contract Start Date and Contract End Date in General tab are still editable. While they are read-only on the item level.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Sales Orders work center.
  2. Go to the Contracts view.
  3. Select a contract which is In Preparation status. Open it and you can see the Contact Start Date and Contract End Date are editable.
  4. Click Release button and the contrat is got released.
  5. In the General tab, you find the fields are still editable, and the in items tab, the fields are read-only.

Cause

It is the current behavior that the Contract Start Date and Contract End Date in General are editable after released. You are able to change the contract start and end date, and this change will be copied into the items.

Resolution

This is the current designed behavior.

Keywords

customer contract; contract start date; contract end date; editable. , KBA , AP-SLO-SO , Sales Order , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign 2305