Significance of ACTION in E1EDK01

[Former Member]

Hello ppl,

This is regarding an outbound IDoc which needs to be triggered whenever a Purchase Order is created or changed.

For this, I am using the basic IDoc ORDERS05 without any modifications.

I am using ORDCHG as the message type.

When the IDoc is triggered (on change or creation of PO), the segment E1EDK01 does not contain the field ACTION.

Could you please tell me why the ACTION field is not appearing in the IDoc's E1EDK01 segment?

Also, what is the significance of ACTION field?

Thanks,

Dawood.

[Former Member]

Hello,

While Creating or Changing the Purchase Order, the ACTION Field is not getting populated, because I think you are not Confirming the PO while Saving it.

If you are confirming the PO, then the Header Segment E1EDK01-ACTION field will be filled with '000'.

Now, the siginficance of the field ACTION in the Segment E1EDK01 is to indicate whether or not the Purchase Order is Confirmed.

Try doing a PO Confirmation and see if the Action Field is getting populated in the Segment E1EDK01.

Hope it was helpful.

Thanks and Regards,

Venkat Phani Prasad Konduri