Updation of Business Area in old documents

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

We have many documents in which business area is missing.So values pertaining to these documents are not available in financial statements for any business area. Earlier 'Document Splitting' characteristic was :

But, in order to flow concerned values to concerned business area we made the 'Business Area'  field as mandatory  in document splitting characteristics:

On the analysis of the documents in which Business area is missing, we found that the 'Division' was not maintained for concerned materials in these documents. So the business area could not be determined for these docs. Now we have maintained the 'Divisions' for all these materials.

Our query is that, is there any std. SAP program available to update the 'Business Area' in these affected old documents. Can we do these changes through editing the table entries. Someone please shade light on this.

Regards,

Aniruddha

[iklovski · Accepted solution]

Hi,

No, there is no standard program for this. Since, you work with New G/L, the only possibility is to delete New GL documents, fill Business Area in FI tables, e.g. BSEG, BSIS, etc. and reconstruct New GL documents, while reconstructing the totals. I did it on several occasions, but the whole exercise is quite tricky, non-standard and not supported by SAP, if something happens during it. If you absolutely need this correction and reluctant to do it yourself, you have to ask for consultancy services from SAP.

Regards,

Eli

[nisitshah]

Generally while doing these type of configuration/validation, we have to check old documents as well.

We faced the similar issue before for some documents.. Ithink no direct solution can be applied.

[siwar_taleb]

Hello,

If you check the entries of these documents in BSEG table, did the the field Business area "GSBER" getting populated?

Thanks,

Siwar

[Former Member]

Hi Siwar,

Thanks for your reply. The business area field is getting populated for these documents in BSEG. But its blank.

Regards,

Aniruddha.

[siwar_taleb]

Hi,

Please refer to this link which seems to be helpful ton understand Business area derivation:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/5f/1fad344aee11d189740000e8322d00/frameset.htm

Regards,

Siwar