Problems accessing Object members by name in BAPI-VB code

[Former Member]

I have been maintaining several applications in VB6 for several years, but have recently run into problems when accessing BAPI objects by name. For instance, part of my code for creating a Sales Order is shown below:

  Set boOrder = oBAPICtrl.GetSAPObject("SalesOrder")
  Set oHeader = oBAPICtrl.DimAs(boOrder, "CreateFromDat2", "OrderHeaderIn")
  With oHeader
'THIS CODE FAILS WITH THIS ERROR "Structure member not found..." ON EACH LINE:
  .Value("DOC_TYPE") = "SO" ' rush order (or TA for non-rush order)
  .Value("SALES_ORG") = "BP01"
  .Value("DISTR_CHAN") = "01"
  .Value("DIVISION") = "01"
  .Value("PRICE_DATE") = "07/01/2015"
  .Value("PURCH_DATE") = "08/01/2015"
  .Value("PURCH_NO_C") = "CA78-0613401c"
  .Value("PURCH_NO_S") = ""
  .Value("INCOTERMS1") = ""PPA"
  .Value("INCOTERMS2") = "UPSN-UPS NDA"
'THE CODE BELOW WORKS! (but I'm guessing about ordinals) 
' .Value(4) = "SO" ' rush order (or TA for non-rush order)
' .Value(6) = "BP01"
' .Value(7) = "01"
' .Value(8) = "01"
' .Value(30) = "07/01/2015"
' .Value(13) = "08/01/2015"
' .Value(40) = "CA78-0613401c"
' .Value(41) = ""
' .Value(23) = "PPA"
' .Value(24) = "UPSN-UPS NDA"
  End With >/font>

Incidentally, this problem has only become evident since I updated to the SAP GUI 7.4 front end!

Can anyone help?

[Former Member]

Boy, a lot of knowledgeable folks out there - not even a hint in nearly 4 months!

[raymond_giuseppi]

This is an Abap forum, not a VB one (try Scripting Languages or Interoperability .NET), also you posted during summer holidays too

[stefan_schnell]

Hello James,

you can find here the solution of your problem, from the post of the 5th Dec. 2014 from Dinesh Bhandarkar.

Cheers

Stefan