BDC or BAPI for Actual period Locking

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thank You very much for reading this query.

I have to deveop the SE38 program with a selection screen which should contain following fields.

1) Controlling Area

2) Fiscal period,

3) Fiscal year

4) Version,

5) Actual/Plan

6) Lock/Unlock

7) Business transaction.

My requirement is if user creates a variant by giving proper values and runs the job, it should lock the given the business transactions.Functionally this task will be done by functional people in OKP1 transaction code (CO-Controlling.)

Please suggest me if any BAPI is there and shall I go ahead with BDC.

The problem if i go with BDC is, some times user may scroll down the table control depending on the given values. So how to satisfy this condition.

Thanks and Regards,

K.krishna Chaitanya.

[mvoros · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I doubt that there is a BAPI for period locking. The transaction uses OKP1 FM K_KAPSA_INSERT to create locks for periods It's not complicated FM, it just updates table KAPS. So you can try to use this function module to avoid BDC.

Cheers

[amy_king]

Hi Krishna,

I know this is an old post, but in case someone else comes across it while searching for a solution to this same problem (as I did), Sanjeev Kumar has written a document, which, among other things, discusses using report RKCOOKP1 (Set Period Locks in Batch) to set or delete period locks in controlling (OKP1). In addition to scheduling a job for RKCOOKP1 as the document demonstrates, you could also call RKCOOKP1 programmatically with SUBMIT report ... AND RETURN.

Cheers,

Amy