Sort Key in G/L Acounts and Customer MAster Records.

[Former Member]

Dear SAP Guru's,

What is the specific use of the Sort Key?How will this effect the Line item entry in FBL5N?

In our Company The G/L Accounts the sort key is maintained As 000 Allocation Number.

_Also In Customer Master-->Company Code Data

The Feild sort key : It is maintained "000" Allocation Number _

If I change the sort key Now after 1 year of several records updated Will the System sort according to the changed sort key?

I want the sort key to be document Number Now after a year will the previous records be shown with the immediate effect.

I have gone through this link.

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/forums.

regards,

Amlan Sarkar

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Sort key field is also known as Allocation field.

The u201Callocation fieldu201D is populated automatically onto line items, during document entry, based on the default sort indicator set in the master record.

When you display or change line items, they are displayed in a standard sort sequence as per sort key defined in master records.

Sort key is defined in G/L master, Vendor master and Customer master. The key defined here is taken as the default key by the system when you want to display the line items pertaining to that account.

The sort key determines what is populated in the allocation field upon posting.

Changing the sort key will only change future postings not already existing line items.

[Former Member]

Can anyboy throe some light on the issue.

regards,

Amlan Sarkar