How to fill Functional Area on Appropriation request

[Former Member]

Hi guys!

We faced a problem to fill standart field IMAK-FKBER (functional area) on Appropriation request. Despite the fact it exists in standart table, there are no standart ways to fill that field through IMA1N or IMA11.

However we assigned FA NG000001 to a Cost center 10000001 and defined that cost center in AR, but still after saving chnages no value changed in IMAK-FKBER?

Does anyone know which organisational units (company code, business area, functional location) effect on the value of functional area in IMAK table? Or is there other way to define FA for appropriation request?

Any help appreciated.

[Paulo_Vitoriano · Accepted solution]

Hi Kir Zu,

I suspect this is an obsolete field, since it makes little sense to be derived from anything at all, while at the same time it is not on the screen.

SAP has a number of obsolete fields even in Customizing activities that allow an entry, but ignored by standard programs.

The best way to confirm it would be to look through ABAP code for AR data save.  You can try to populate it with a user exit, but it also makes little sense since the field is not visible.

Also look at the function that creates WBS-element/Order from IMA11, it is passing the master data values to respective WBS/Order and your ABAPer can see if Functional Area is passed or not.

Functional Area makes sense only for Account Assignment Objects used in Financial Accounting, while AR is not an account assignment object.

Regards,

Paulo

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks, guru. Will look carefully to the ABAP code.

[NathanGenez · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure that obsolete is the right word.  SAP generally assigns all of the common account assignment fields to master data objects because they don't know how every customer will implement all of them.  In this case, a customer might have some sort of cost classification or ownership that they've defined in this particular field.  I doubt they've taken it so far as to do product costing at the IM-AR level... but you can never be sure.

[Paulo_Vitoriano · Accepted solution]

Hi Nathan,

My conclusion was based on the fact that the field is not on the screen, it is a hidden field.  Reasonably it cannot be derived from anything except Responsible Cost Center, but responsibility does not mean common Functional Area.  Also we can have 1 to many relationship between AR and WBS, while WBS-es can have different Functional Areas.

Functional Area on AR can serve only as default value to be passed further to measures.  There is no such field in the IMPR table for example to be inherited from Position, deriving it back from the measure also not logical...

For some reason it reminds me Recovery Indicator in OPTK, but at least SAP has an OSS note about it, probably because the field is visible.

Paulo

[NathanGenez · Accepted solution]

Good point.  In that case, you might be right.