Product Category Description 2 in SRM missing

[Former Member]

Hello,

we have the issue, that the Product Category Description 2 is needed in the SRM System. The replication from ERP just giving Product Category Description 1. We are running SRM 7.0 and habe ECC 6.0 (EHP4) as Backend.

What would be the best way to solve this?

1. Enhance the master data replication and

2. Enhance the dataobject Product Category in SRM with the field wgbez60 to store the data

How can an enhancement to the replication be done? Is there a BADI as for vendors available?

How the middleware program need to be changed?

Thanks for your reply

Regards

Edited by: trevor_987 on Dec 2, 2010 12:12 PM

[Former Member]

Thanks for reply. I have found another way to geht the description 2.

Solved.

[Former Member]

Hi Trevor,

Can you please throw some light how you implemented the solution for bringing in Description 2 field? Really appreciate you input on this.

Thanks in advance.

[Former Member]

Hi,

the solution is:

SM30 - Table: COMC_HIERARCHY - go to change mode. You will see the flag, where you can activate the Description 2 in SRM. Please note, the groups should be replicated again!!

Regards

Laszlo

[Former Member]

Hi,

this does not solve my issue. We need both fields in SRM System. The Category description 1 and 2. It is needed because both field contain different inforamtion.

Does anybody have experience with enhancements of this kind?

Best regards

Trevor

[Former Member]

Hi. In that case....

Go to BBPSC01 in the GUI, get the search help name from the category field.

Go to SE11 and change the search help to add a new field and put in a search help exit just like any other search help.

This way you can use the search help exit to read both descriptions from the backend and populate the search results.

This will allow users to see both descriptions when searching.

After they choose a category they will only see 1 description in the cart though.

You could implement a custom field and use BBP_DOC_CHANGE_BADI to populate the second description. It will be shown in a different section on the cart though.

Alternatively you could look at changing the templates, that would be quite tricky for something this complex though.

Regards,

Dave.

[Former Member]

Sorry, should have said before, after you flag the entry in COMC_HIERARCHY you need to run the middlesware again, then the 60 char description will overwrite the 20 char in SRM.

Regards,

Dave.

[Former Member]

Hi. Table COMC_HIERARCHY has an option you can flag then the long description will transfer.

Please note this will only transfer the 60 character description instead of the 20, it will not transfer both.

As far as I know it is not possible to have both, unless you start messing around with custom fields and tables.

Regards,

Dave.