Field control of contact person in customer master data

[katarinahartman]

Dear all,

I would like to set Title, Last name and First name of Contact person (created via VAP1) mandatory. Can anyone advise where and how this can be done?

(I am not trying to set Contact person in customer master data as mandatory, this has been set to optional. Only the specific fields of Contact person need to be mandatory).

Thank you very much for your help!

Katarina

[sez41 · Accepted solution]

Sorry - This is not possible in standard - you have to write your own control to check it via customer master user exits.

[ankurch]

Hello Katarina,

Please check the account group configuration, I hope you can do it!

thanks,

[katarinahartman]

Hi Ankur!

Thank you for your answer! I tried to do following:

SPRO > IMG > Financial accounting > Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable > Customer Accounts > Master Data > Preparations for Creating Customer Master Data > Define Account Groups with Screen Layout (Customers) > 0001 (Sold -to- Party) > General data > Contact person

When I check the fields of Contact person, I have no possibility to set them to optional or mandatory. This is what I am looking for. So I need to modify the fields in Contact person and not in customer master data.

Do you know a way, this can be done? If yes, would you please be so kind and write the steps?

Thank you, kind regards,

Katarina

[ankurch]

Hello Katarina,

First you need to check which Account Group you are using for your organization, then please use the below path to make the field contact person mandatory -

SPRO-IMG-Logistic General- Business Partner- Customers - Account Group and Field Selection , here select the appropriate account group and click on the general data, in the general data click on the contact person - here you can make this field mandatory!

thanks,

[katarinahartman]

Hi Ankur,

I am not trying to make Contact person itself mandatory. Only in case, that Contact person is added, it should have Title, Name and Surname filled. This was the idea. Based on different discussions I assume, that setting only specific fields of Contact person is not possible.

Regards,

Katarina

[maximiliano_isoba]

Hi,

As far as I know you can set the contact person as mandatory in this IMG path:

IMG-Financial Accounting-Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable-Customer Accounts-Master Data-Preparations for Creating Customer Master Data-Define Account Groups with Screen Layout (Customers)-0001 (Sold -to- Party) -General data-Contact person.

(IMG transaction: OBD2).

However, you can set all the fields as mandatory but you cannot mantain the status for each field separately.

Regards,

Maximiliano Isoba.

[katarinahartman]

Hi Maximiliano,

thank you for your answer.

I am not trying to set Contact person itself as mandatory. Only in case, that Contact person is entered, it should include Title, Name and Surname.

So far we also didn't find an option, so set specific fields of contact person as mandatory.

Regards,

Katarina