VA01 BDC does not return sales order number

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I am using BDC to create sales orders using transaction VA01. Most of the time I have no problems using this method. However, for some orders no order number is returned.

I know that BDC is not the best way of doing things, but we have customized the sales order screens a lot and therefore can't use BAPI, so we need to use BDC.

I have used display mode 'A' when calling the transaction and I know that all the screens populate correctly. Then when the order saves, no order number is provided. The just created order can't be found by searching using the sold-to party, so the order appears to not have created. However, when I look in the table of messages returned from the transaction, there are no errors.

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Thanks in advance,

Dan

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Alvaro Tejada Galindo

[Former Member]

Why don't use update mode called 'S'.

call transaction 'VA01' using BDCDATA

MODE 'N'

update 'S' -> use this one.

messages into bdcmsgcoll.

Thanks

Seshu

[MarcelloUrbani]

Maybe you didn't provide data for a screen (some popup?).

I would expect sAP to report it though.

[Former Member]

Hi all,

I discovered that my problem was in some code that a former employee put in the userexit_save_document_prepare. After fixing the problem code everything works fine.

Thanks for the responses,

Dan