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3507998 - Error "Please Enter Data for Preferred Method of Contact E-Mail" When Replicating Business Partners to C4C

Symptom

When you are replicating business partners to C4C, you encounter an error "Please enter data for preferred method of contact E-Mail" in Web Service Message Monitoring, for service interface BusinessPartnerERPAddressReplicationIn.

Environment

SAP Cloud for Customer

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Administrator work center.
  2. Go to the General Settings work center view.
  3. Open the Web Service Message Monitoring under System Administration.
  4. Select query "All".
  5. Search for message ID with error "Please enter data for preferred method of contact E-Mail".

Cause

The incoming payload has the following field:

<PreferredCommunicationMediumTypeCode>INT</PreferredCommunicationMediumTypeCode>

This means that you have configured the Preferred Communication Method as INT (Internet), and, therefore, an email needs to be sent in the payload.

Resolution

In your middleware, remove the field PreferredCommunicationMediumTypeCode from the payload.

Keywords

"Please enter data for preferred method of contact E-Mail", PreferredCommunicationMediumTypeCode, C4C, BusinessPartnerERPAddressReplicationIn, Business Partner , KBA , LOD-CRM-INT-ERP , Integration of C4C with ERP , How To

Product

SAP Cloud for Customer core applications all versions