3832909 - Prevent billing creation when a billing header custom field is empty (SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition)

How to prevent billing creation when a custom field in billing document header is not maintained.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Use BAdI SD_BIL_DATA_TRANSFER to achieve this.

Refer to below code example:

* Mandatory step for all implementations:
* Copy the importing parameters to the changing parameters.
MOVE-CORRESPONDING bil_doc TO bil_doc_res.
MOVE-CORRESPONDING bil_doc_item TO bil_doc_item_res.
MOVE-CORRESPONDING bil_doc_item_contr TO bil_doc_item_contr_res.

* Check header custom field - if empty, reject the item
IF bil_doc-yy1_***(custom field name) IS INITIAL.
  billingdocumentitemisrejected  = abap_true.
  billgdocitmrejectionreasontext = '*** is mandatory. Billing document cannot be created.'.
ENDIF.

• refer to: Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) for Sales Billing
• refer to: Custom Data Transfer for Billing Process Documents
• refer to: SAP Note 3599594 – How to make the fields mandatory in Billing Header data for Preliminary Billing Document in S/4HANA Public Cloud edition
• refer to: SAP Note 3227690 – Avoid empty Custom Fields on Sales Billing process flow

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