Material text missing on material iDoc

[Former Member]

Hi Gurus,

We are using material master interface via standard change pointer principles.

What I am noticing is if I maintain a text for material e.g. Sales or Purchase or any other text when I trigger the iDoc via BD10 the texts are populated on E1MTXHM and E1MTXLM segments.

I have not activated texts for change pointers.

However if another change pointer relevant field e.g material description changes triggering the iDoc via BD21 doesn't carry the material texts.

I would have thought that when we trigger iDocs via BD21 it will carry the full snapshot of the object(s).

This behaviour works ok for customer master iDocs i.e. although texts are not active on chnage pointers when a relevant change pointer based field changes the iDoc via BD21 carries the text as well.

I wonder if anyone has faced same for material may be there is a setting missing.

I do not want to activate the change pointers for texts as that will start triggering unwanted iDocs.

Thanks in advance for your time.

[Jelena]

The description seems a bit confusing... Are you saying that the change pointers are getting created when there is no other change than the text even though you have not configured change tracking for the texts? Unless tit's some kind of custom development gone wild I'd say it is a bug and needs to be reported to SAP.

[Former Member]

Hi Jelena,

Thanks for taking time to help me

My material message has material description set on change pointer.

I made a change to material description and at the same time maintained material sales text and few other texts on the material master.

When I run BD21 it triggers the iDoc due to the change pointer it logged by the material description change.

However this iDoc hasn't got the texts that I had maintained.

I was expecting them to be there as it should have taken the full snap shot of the material master.

When I run BD10 it carries all the texts available on material master.

As of now the only way I can get the texts to appear on iDoc via BD21 is by activating change pointer for individual texts.

Even then if I make change to say Material sales text it only triggers the sales text and not the rest.

Individually however if I change these texts since I have activated the change pointers it sends them.

This looks incorrect to me, my understanding is (or was) that once BD21 has realized a master idoc to be sent out it will send the full snapshot (unless otherwise blocked I haven't reduced the message or anything).

Hope this is a clearer explanation.

[Jelena]

Even then if I make change to say Material sales text it only triggers the sales text and not the rest.
Individually however if I change these texts since I have activated the change pointers it sends them.

Sorry, this is still a bit confusing. You might want to clarify what is the specific sequence of the events. In general, however, I'd expect only the data related to the change in the IDoc, not "full snapshot". But I don't have a system handy right now to confirm.

But if you fill there is an error then, as I said, report it to SAP. Just make sure to include the specific steps you're doing and what the expectation is.