reference characteristic document type VBAK AUART

[Former Member]

A reference characteristic worked fine for years.  One day we saw unexpected behavior on 2 orders on one specific date.

The dependency simply uses VBAK-AUART to check on order type 'TA  ' for a sales order type of OR.

     $root.vbak_auart eq 'TA  '

'TA  ' relates to an order type of OR based on table TAUUM - 'TA  ' is language independent so that is why it was used.  It's worked for years.

   It would look like this under Environment > change documents;

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2 sales orders on 2014-05-08 apparently CONVERSION_EXIT_AUART_OUTPUT CONVERSION_EXIT_AUART_INPUT didn't trigger to send 'TA  ' to the dependency, so it used OR instead (pictured below).  All other orders over the years show TA.  Interesting only 2 orders ever did this over 4 years of usage.  Everything is returning 'TA  ' today too.

Order creation example of those 2 under change documents inside of the configuration

http://imgur.com/OYqWehL

The user changed the order several days later and it did use TA.  No changes to VC were done.  We didn't know this happened yet.

Final change;

http://imgur.com/BOKOA0i

A few months after that it was noticed. 

I guess the moral of the story is to expect the unexpected and we should have used TA and OR, but I'm a little perplexed as to why TA didn't get sent at least initially. 

The revised dependency will catch that situation if it ever happens again, but that behavior was very odd;

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[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Straz,

Do you have any user exit that updates or changes table field vbak_auart. It seems strange the value wasn't picked up. What support package are you in ?

Regards

Amber

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

we'll have to double check for an exit, but we should not.  only ever happened on 2 orders across thousands and only on that particular date.

of course anything we test now is showing ta initially and never changes.

ECC 6 kernel release 721

Sup. Pkg level 213

SAP_AP	700	0012	SAPKNA7012	SAP Application Platform
SAP_APPL	600	0012	SAPKH60012	Logistics and Accounting

SAP_ABA	700	0016	SAPKA70016	Cross-Application Component
PI_BASIS	2005_1_700	0014	SAPKIPYJ7E	PI_BASIS 2005_1_700

SAP_BASIS

700

0016

SAPKB70016

SAP Basis Component