3724528 - Sales area not allowed for relationship category

When adding a new relationship of any category e.g. "Payer" or "Has the Payer" / "Is the Payer of", the system throws the below error message:

• Sales Area not allowed for relationship category Payer.

This error can happen for any relationship category.

• SAP Cloud for Customer
• SAP Cloud Applications Studio

1. Navigate to Customers Work Center.
2. Open Accounts View.
3. Search and open the account.
4. Click on the Edit button.
5. In the Overview tab, go to the Relationships area.
6. Click on the Add button.
7. Attempt to add a Business Partner with Relationship Type as "Has the Payer".
8. Click on Save.
9. Observe the error message: "Sales Area not allowed for relationship category Payer".

In Business Configuration > Overview, within the activity "General Business Partners" > Maintain Relationships, the Payer party with has the Sales Area Dependency checkbox unchecked.

Also, there might be a PDI script logic written in ABSL that fills out the Sales Data details of the new relationship which does not allow a sales area.

Given the situation that the relationship does now allow to have a Sales Area Dependency and there is a PDI script which attempts to assign the sales area for the relationship, there are two options:

1. Check the Sales Area Dependency checkbox of the affected relationship in the fine-tuning activity "General Business Partners" > Maintain Relationships.
2. To add a validation on the PDI script logic to verify if a sales area is allowed for the relationship.

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