Active indicator for inspection types in material master

[former_member42743]

In the subscreens for the QM inspection types, is it possible to make the "active indicator" default in as checked on?

Currently this indicator is not set when adding a new inspection types to a material. We want to have it be defaulted in. We have had to many cases were people forget to set this and material then goes directly to unrestricted inventory.

We can't see any reason why we would ever not want this clicked on. If we don't want the inspection type active, we would just not bother adding that inspection type to the material.

FF

[former_member42743 · Accepted solution]

Never implemented a coding solution for this.

Instituted a business process where only QA08 is used to add/active inspection types during material creation process or material changes.  QA08 will set the active indicator.  QA08 is only assigned to those QM personnel directly responsible for material master setups.  MM01/02 and the QM view are strictly limited.

Craig

[Jelena]

Unless you're searching strictly for a configuration only option, you might want to post a question in ABAP forum as well.

If you could mention the transaction name and the technical field name, I'd be happy to check if there is a user exit or something available to make this happen.

[JL23]

MM01

field  RMQAM-AKTIV

I know it can be set active when creating the materials with a BAPI, e.g. in data migrations.

But for online maintenance I only know BADI_MATERIAL_REF to default values, and I cant really see anything abut QM in there (but my ABAP knowledge is just surface)

[former_member42743]

Thanks Jelena and Jurgen,

Yes. this field is in the QMAT table, QMAT-AKTIV.  The inspection types are kind of a subscreen in the material master.  So the standard material master configuration options don't apply to it.

You can get this set if you use a copy model from a template material.  But you still have to actually physically go into inspection type set up via the QM view in order for all the values to actually transfer.

I've never understood why SAP doesn't just make "active" as the default value.  If you didn't want the inspection type active, why would you add it to begin with?  Seems a bit redundant.

FF

[Jelena]

OK, I see it - fortunately this was set up in our system too. This is screen 100 in SAPLQPLS program (QPLS function group). There are no user exits or BADI, unfortunately, but probably an implicit (?) enhancement could easily be made, if necessary, in the standard screen.

The values are maintained in what looks like a table control. It is bit more cumbersome to program the default values for such controls (comparing to, say, single fields on the other MM01 screens), but it's not impossible:

I would agree that it doesn't make sense to leave the value blank when entering new values, but probably someone decided adding extra 2 hours to the project timeline wasn't worth it. Or could be just a plain case of "lazy programming".

Perhaps you could get another 5 customers on board and then submit an enhancement request through ASUG, bwahahaha! If I finally make time to write some global rant about things in SAP that don't make sense, I'll make a note of this one too.

[former_member42743]

The change shouldn't be tooo.. hard.  Said the functional consultant to the ABAP'er.... 

Really though, we already have a configuration table for the inspection type defaults.  (TQ34).

They should be able to add an "Inspection Active" field to this table.

Then add it to the configuration screen. V_TQ34, program SAPL0Q05, screen 0060.

Then when the inspection type is added they could check TQ34 as they do for all the other inspection type settings and set the active indicator per config.

FF

[Former Member]

Hi,

Go thro' the below link to activate required settings

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/2d/350ef6448c11d189420000e829fbbd/content.htm

reg.

Mariappam

[former_member42743]

No.

That only concerns the default settings for the inspection type. Those parameters do not include the "acitve" indicator.

FF