In FM SAVE_DATA invalid material no also showing SY-SUBRC = 0

[Former Member]

Dear Friends,

I am uploading PO long text in MM02 by using fm 'SAVE_TEXT in my program.

Its woking fine.

if i give invalid material no as input in HEADDATA also showing sy-subrc = 0.

pls suggest'

[Former Member]

Hi,

SAVE_TEXT is not directly linked to a PO. The link is created via the header data that you pass. As such, no validations are done on the data since SAVE_TEXT can be used to save data for several different types of texts.

You options is to put an condition before calling SAVE_TEXT that checks for the material.

Select single *
from MAKT
where matnr = my_material_no.
if sy-subrc ne 0.
     message e000(38) with 'Material does not exist'.
else.
   CALL FUNCTION 'SAVE_TEXT'
  EXPORTING
    header                = v_header
  tables
    lines                 = it_lines
 EXCEPTIONS
   ID                    = 1
   LANGUAGE              = 2
   NAME                  = 3
   OBJECT                = 4
   OTHERS                = 5
          .
IF sy-subrc <> 0.
 MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
         WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
ENDIF.
endif.

[JL23]

It writes the data to STXH and STXL if you dont validate this yourself first.

I assume you have already written data with to these tables.

If you someday create a material having this number, then the text appears like a phantom.

Find those records and delete them.

[Former Member]

Hi ,

As suggested by our friend dsouzajovito , we need to check first for material existence and then pass to the function module as it is no way related to material change.

Thanks,

Srikanth.A