Regional structure in Sales Orders

[Former Member]

Hello,

I'm trying to use the regional structure functionality in SAP. It allows users to find a city when enterring a postal code and vice versa. My concern is that it seems applicable when we want to enter or change an address in Sales Orders because (and it's hardcoded) several fields (eg city field) are mandatory in the SO addresses.

Why add this functionality if it can't be used?

Note 582851 has apparently been replaced by note 1469064. Did you succeed to use regional structures in Sales Orders? Is there any way to succeed?

Best regards,

Catherine MICHEL

[Jelena]

Catherine, I have not used this functionality, but it seems that note 582851 is still very much valid and contains instructions how to perform a modification to make City field not required. 1469064 is a KB article that just explains that some fields are hard-coded and the other note explains how to remove the hard-coding.

So if you ask an ABAPer to follow the note 582851 then it should work, I think. Please be aware though that this is a modification, so SAP won't support it and it may need to be re-applied with every upgrade.

As far as "why add this functionality" - I guess that's just how SAP rolls.

[Former Member]

Thank you Jelena for your answer.

My developer doesn't think as you do and prefers to say "

this note 582851 is not implemented for some reasons and also it cannot be implemented by us.

In note 1469064, SAP says that it is normal behavior, no corrections for it"

Personally I'm quite deceived by this standard-functionality-completely-available-only-if-you-make-modifications-involving-non-SAP-support.

I will create a request for SAP.

Thank you again for your answer.