In IDocs, what is a qualifier field?

[Former Member]

Hi all,

Could you please tell me about qualifier fields... Please refer to documents/files or threads if needed...

Thanks,

Charles.

[Former Member]

Qualifiers will further qualify the value that is entered in the value field. For instance, when you are passing an PO IDOC as an EDI message to a vendor, you may need to send them the product code that you use as well as their product code. So you will create two segments where the value field will contain your material number or vendor's material number, but the qualifier on one will tell that it is your material number and the same on the other one will tell that the value is a vendor material number.

Instead of adding one field for each of the values, qualifiers will allow you to use the same fields to mean different things. You will find the qualifiers used typically for identifying document numbers, material numbers etc. You can double click on the qualifyers and go all the way to the domain level and you will see the different values they represent.

[ferry_lianto]

Hi,

Qualifier in the IDoc segment is an identifer for the data in the remainder segment fields.

For e.g. Segment E1EDK14

Fields: QUALF and ORGID

QUALF's domain has values

001 Business area

002 Sales area

003 Delivering company code

004 Plant in charge

005 Delivering plant

006 Division

007 Distribution channel

008 Sales organization

009 Purchasing Group

010 Sales group

011 Company code

012 Order type

013 Purchase order type

014 Purchasing organization

015 Billing Type

016 Sales office

017 Unloading Point

018 Quotation type

019 PO type (SD)

Regards,

Ferry Lianto

[Former Member]

charles,

Qualifier in the IDoc segment is an identifer for the data in the remainder segment fields.

For e.g. Segment E1EDK14

Fields: QUALF and ORGID

QUALF's domain has values

001 Business area

002 Sales area

003 Delivering company code

004 Plant in charge

005 Delivering plant

006 Division

007 Distribution channel

008 Sales organization

009 Purchasing Group

010 Sales group

011 Company code

012 Order type

013 Purchase order type

014 Purchasing organization

015 Billing Type

016 Sales office

017 Unloading Point

018 Quotation type

019 PO type (SD)

The segment E1EDK14 will be repeated in the message with different qualifier.

QUALF - ORGID

001 - 1000

002 - 2001

The posting program will check the qualifiers and populate the value in the field ORGID in the respective fields of the PO.

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