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3391251 - Unable to Active Business Object

Symptom

Activation of custom Object Fails with errors Character is not Expected

Environment

  • SAP Cloud for Customer
  • SAP Business ByDesign
  • SAP Cloud Applications Studio

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to SAP Cloud Applications Studio.
  2. Open Solution YABCXXXXX_ 
  3. Open the respective Business Object.
  4. Activate errors appears  bo Character '' is not expected

Cause

The error pops up because there seems to be an additional invalid character at the beginning of the BODL. 

Resolution

User can copy the entire BODL from the SAP Cloud Applications Studio to an external editor (like Notepad++ or VS Code) and then check if an unrecognized character is present at the beginning of the BODL.

If this is present, please request to remove this character, paste the BODL back to the SAP Cloud Applications Studio and then re-activate the BO. The BO activation should then go fine.

Keywords

Activation error; bo Character '' is not expected; , KBA , AP-RC-BDS-BO , ByDesign Studio BO definition/generation , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions ; SAP Cloud Applications Studio all versions ; SAP Cloud for Customer add-ins all versions ; SAP Cloud for Customer core applications 2308