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ES66 transaction do not allow Device Location Notes more than 99

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Hi All

Transaction ES66 is giving a short dump when any process is trying to insert device
location notes for a device location that already has 99 notes in ENOTE table.

We raised the SAP message and SAP's response is "Unfortunately the mentioned
field enote-lfdnr is type CHAR with length

of only 2 characters. Therefore the usage of more of 99 is not designed for
this domain CHAR2. Please consider also the note 11".

I am trying to understand if the customer is using the solution appropriately and how other
utility customers using the solution.

The table ENOTE is designed to maintain Notes specific to Device Location.

However here customer is maintaining Business Partners specific notes( Business partner is not a key
field in ENOTE). i.e. OBJTYPE = 3(Device Location), and Partner = XXXXX.

Not sure if this is correct practice.

For example:

Device Location A with Business partner B has note "Has Dog".

Entry will be, Device Location "A", Business Partner "B"
and Note no: "1", "Has Dog"

So when this tenant moves out and new tenant(C) do not have dog they maintain
new note "No Dog".

Entry will be, Device Location "A", Business Partner "C"
and Note no: "2", "No Dog"

Due to this the No. of Notes increasing fast.

Questions:

1) Have you come across this issue ? or maybe enote-lfdnr is approaching 99 in your case?

2) Is Device location note being maintained for Business partners in ES66?

3) If not then how notes specific to business partners are being maintained?

4) Is there any better way of maintaining Device location notes?

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daniel_mccollum
Active Contributor
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Currently we simply delete the old notes no longer relevant once a BP moves out. Customer service has a specific prompt to determine if a dog note or any other health & safety note is still relevant & will remove it if not.

If I was to voice a personal opinion per the above business process. I would describe it as insane.

The most notes I've seen that were meaningful in our system was about 5 maybe, & that was an apartment building with several directions to the meter room.

As to the comment "is it correct practice" does it work for you? if yes then by all means. But I refer again to my opinion "insane"