New sales text id in material view MVKE to enter additional text data?

[former_member241490]

Hi All,

I want to add text in material master sales text and that should be copied in to Sales order line item level. but in our case our business is already using "Sales Text" for some other purpose, so we cant use that to bring text in sales order item level.

so how and where i can add Text so that i can put some text over there and bring it in sales order item level. i have created text id under MVKE object in tcode se75.

but my concern is in material master where i can write Text so it can be copied in to sales order item level

i have gone through few search regarding this: i.e.:New sales text id in material view MVKE. and more..

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

Manish

[phanikumar_v3]

May I know why a Sales Doc Item level text will not satisfy your requirement--Pl Try and update.

Phanikumar

[Jelena]

Because they want to enter the text once per material and then just copy it to the sales docs. That seems to be pretty clear in the original post... Sales doc texts by itself would have to be maintained in every document. It's not a replacement for the material-specific text.

[sez41]

The easist solution to implement is using the same text ID with a different language which is not used in the system. There should also be a customer reserve language which can be used for this purpose I believe-

[former_member241490]

Hi Kivanc Bilgin, i have given same solution to business and suggested to use other language which they r not using. just want to know if any possibilities are there to create text id, i think which is not via standard.

One more thing they are already using customer reserve for some other purpose. yes we can also add languages apart from 41 languages which is provided. but i want to know can we create additional language or zlanguage in standard. please let me know

[Jelena]

Indeed there could be different text maintained in different languages but how would a different text then be picked when copying to the sales document? Let's say someone maintains sales text in 2 languages: English and Spanish. When the users login in English, the English version of the sales text would be picked and copied to the order. Similarly, logging in with Spanish language would lead to the Spanish sales text picked and copied.

We already had issues with that in the output when we added a company in Mexico with Spanish language. Some orders were processed jointly (created in the US and updated in MX), so in some cases we ended up with a mix of languages. Ironically, some text would be actually in Spanish but written with EN identifier. In the output forms, we had to add some code to work around such situations. This can quickly turn very messy.

[sez41]

Hi jelena.perfiljeva2 ;

There is a checkbox ("All languages"?) in text determination customizing, and when it's ticked, all maintained languages for a particular text is copied to the relevant document, irrespective of the logon language; so I see no problem over there.

[Jelena]

sez41 thanks for clarification. But if there is already some text in language A (that is not copied, I assume) and new text is created in language B then wouldn't using this option cause both texts to be copied? I thought this was not the desired effect for OP, they seem to want just the new text copied to the order and existing text left as is. Maybe I misunderstood...

[sez41]

jelena.perfiljeva2 that is correct - in this case all languages for the same text would be copied to the document.

I have seen many a projects where business wants different texts for the same material (some of them to be printed on product label, more than one of them to be printed on quotations/order confirmations (but on different places in the printouts), etc. So I think what OP wants is a legit request, but I'm not sure whether SAP would address that.

[Jelena]

sez41 - yes, different kinds of text is definitely not a rare business requirement and mostly valid too. I thought this actually came up in one of the SD Customer Engagement projects but checked the SAP notes and didn't find any improvements delivered for this.

In this particular case though it seems that OP's client shot themselves in the foot by using sales text for something else (per my understanding) and now that they actually want the real sales text it's taken by another functionality.

There are more material texts available but none other is specific to the sales area, unfortunately.

[Jelena]

I don't know for sure but there is an old post saying it is not feasible. Might want to google "MVKE custom text" to investigate further.

What you're describing is the exact purpose of the Sales Text. So using it for something else and then trying to find something else to work like Sales Text doesn't seem logical. Maybe that other text can be moved someplace else?

[former_member241490]

Thanks for reply Jelena, i have already seen the link what you have provided. there they have suggested we can create new Z text id under MVKE. and i have seen all the post related to MVKE are old so i thought some one can help if they have done in recent time.

As my requirment is business want to give another sales text under material master with out disturbing there earlier sales text which is nothing but specific Languages.

so i am thinking to suggest new to use new language text in sales text under material master so they can put new text with out disturbing old text. and will get same in sales order.

if any other suggestion and solution please let me know.

Thanks