FI-CA Docto. --> Update Field XBLNR --> Link between FI-CA and Billing

[Former Member]

Hello everybody!

We need to update the reference field (XBLNR) of the FI-CA document with an external number. The problem is that the system updates this field (in a standard and transparent) with the billing document when the FI-CA document is created. If we update the u201Creferenceu201D field, we are going to lose the link between the billing and FI-CA module (if we want to surf from FI-CA to billing).

We need to update the u201Creferenceu201D field and not another because this field is the only one that has a search option in the selection screen (transaction FPE3).

We have been searching lots of OSS notes and surfing into the SAP help but there isnu2019t any documentation related to this issue and how to solve it.

Please, give us some ideas. Thanks!

Fernando.

[friedrich_keller · Accepted solution]

Fernando,

Have you checked SAP Note 1157830, 1293904?

1. ODN (official document number) functionality is used:

-> update of all FICA documents with a seperate ODN number (instead of

the print document number) in the field DFKKKO(P)-XBLNR

2. ODN functionality is not used:

-> update of all FICA documents with the print document number in the

field DFKKKO(P)-XBLNR (that is the standard)

Kind regards,

Fritz

[Former Member]

Thanks Fritz for your answer.

Related to option 1, if we update field XBLNR with the ODN, how we are going to know which billing document is linked to the FI-CA we are updating?

Regards,

Fernando.

[Former Member]

If it is just a matter of this not being in the search for documents, why can't you enhance the search help FKDC and add your new field to it instead of using the reference document number field?

Find a different field to store your external document number and then enhance the search help.

[Former Member]

No matter you update the XBLNR field, you can surf from the FI-CA to the billing document as follows: you have to go to the overview screen, then follow the path: environment > original document.

Be careful!... if you try to follow this path in the header screen, the path is not active.