Subsitution & Validation

[Former Member]

Is anyone help to explain what is subsitution & Validation in SAP and what are the steps to set up the rule.

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A validation is used to check that entries made in the system meet a certain criteria, otherwise an error (or warning) message will be given. For example if you want a general ledger account to only be posted to using a particular cost center, you can set up a validation to give an error message anytime a user posts to a different cost center.

Ex: you donot want user to post in dates other than current dates.

A substitution is used to populate the value of a filled based on certain criteria. For example, if you want you can tell the system that anytime someone posts to a particular general ledger account, the profit center field should be populated (with any value that you want).

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[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Some more examples of validation and substitution are:

Good explanation but date is not a good example.

You want users to post only certain document types for certain GL accounts.

Subtittution :

for certain order types you can substitutes difference profit center.

[former_member188826]

Use GGB0 for validation and GGB1 for substitution.

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