When contract release value go to negative?

[former_member183819]

Note 1268827 - Short dump if aggregated release value is negative..

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Symptom

You try to open a contract with negative aggregated release value, the system throws the runtime error DYNPRO_FIELD_CONVERSION.

Solution

To correct this error implement the following manual changes in the

screen painter(without modification assistant)

I wanted to know when the total release value is negative? i am hairing out..

can some one explain me?

jay :- any thoughts?..

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Muthu

[Former Member]

I can't think of a reasonable/logical scenario where release value should go negative. However, we should not forget that a business document can not only be created via user interface, e.g. through the web, but also via the background, such as through XML upload, or XML messages. In those cases, if the BAPI interface allows signed values for release value, the documents are going to be created without a problem in either positive or negative values.

[former_member183819]

Though Jay . why should we have negative release value .

what it means ?

aha . interesting too.

the note creator may answer this..

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muthu

[Former Member]

It doesn't mean anything logical to me. I guess my interpretation for such scenario is "by mistake". But this "mistake" should not cause a short dump in the system, because this should be handled at application level, not system level. I guess that was the objective of the note - to be able to recover from such an application error. For example, an error message should be proper.