SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3418865 - Journal Entry Voucher's Item's Custom-Specific Text Field visibility issue

Symptom

  • In the Journal Entry Voucher screen, under the "Item Details - Manual Posting - Journal Entry Voucher" section, the "Custom-Specific Text" field is available for the line item.
  • When selecting a Cost Center/Profit Center value for the line item, the system hides the "Custom-Specific Text" field.
  • While trying to make the "Custom-Specific Text" field always visible using Extensibility Explorer in SAP Cloud Application Studio's UI Designer were unsuccessful, as the visibility option is disabled.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center
  2. Go to the Journal Entry Vouchers sub view.
  3. Give New Journal Entry Voucher.
  4. Try to give all the mandatory fields and under "Item Details - Manual Posting - Journal Entry Voucher" section of line item "Custom-Specific Text" field is available.
  5. When selecting Cost Center/Profit Center value for the line item, the system makes "Custom-Specific Text" field hidden. 
  6. It is required to make the Custom-Specific Text field always visible.

Cause

For the respective Account Assignment type, the CC-Cost center and PRFT- Profit Center, also the account assignment CUSTOM_TEXT1 - Customer-specific Text is not maintained as mandatory.
Need to maintain the account assignment CUSTOM_TEXT1 - Customer-specific Text as 1-mandatory.

Resolution

  1. Go to the Business Configuration work center and access the Account Assignment Types fine-tune activity. 
  2. Search for Maintain Account Assignment Types and click that.
  3. For Account Assignment Type: CC -Cost Center, the Available Account Assignments: CUSTOM_TEXT1 - Customer-specific Text should be maintained as 1 - Mandatory in the Data Input Control field.
  4. Give save and close.
  5. For Account Assignment Type: PRFT -Profit Center, the Available Account Assignments: CUSTOM_TEXT1 - Customer-specific Text should be maintained as 1 - Mandatory in the Data Input Control field.
  6. Again, give save and close.

Now the field will be available in the screen for Cost Center, Profit Center Account Assignment Types. 

Keywords

Journal Entry Voucher, Custom-Specific Text field, Profit Center, Cost Center, Business configuration. , KBA , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions