Finding what tables and fields lie behind an SAP transaction

The question "what is it doing and why ?" is a pretty standard part of the BASIS person / teams day.  It can be in the context of debugging a program or process, or trying to work out what configuration changes are required to make something work. An example of when thius gets escalated to BASIS is when the development or functional team have moved on, leaving someone who knows what to do but not why – usually a user (under pressure from their boss) who just wants to get the system doing what they've been told it should be doing….

However, your BASIS team (or person) has to be a jack of all trades,  but also a working knowledge of Networking, Desktop PCs, the Operating System(s) and Databases(s) their SAP systems are running on and so on, as well as being able to answer SAP functional questions.

 

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Author: Martin

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SAP: OSS - Finding notes

Does needle in a haystack sound familiar?  This documentation is meant to give you a starting place.  Remember there are many different ways to find OSS notes.   Explore your own.  If you find one that works well, please add your comment.

 

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Author: Michell Crapo

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Billing document to COPA partially transferred !!

Check the below for possible reasons:

1. Check the whether the Condition type is assigned properly to the value field.

2. Cost elements used in this case must be created with CElem category must be either 11 (Revenue element) or 12 (Sales deduction)

3. Conditions can be statistical or non-statistical, but the cost element defined for the G/L account must be of type '11' or '12'.

4. Tax conditions are not posted in CO-PA

5. All conditions in an item must be active (inactive conditions are not transferred to COPA)