Friday, 28 April 2017

Field Status Group and issues


Error Message: Field Text is a required field for G/L account AB01 987654

While posting or reversing a MIRO transaction the above error was received.

There are two ways to solve the issue:

  • Enter some text in the basic data in MIRO screen
  • To avoid this error in MIRO screen, Go to FS00 and go to Create bank/ Interest and Identify the Field Status Group . Enter transaction code OBC4 and select on the Field Status Group. Click on change display icon .In the general data tab, make the text as optional and save it. The change will generate transport.

Field Status Group:

Field status groups are independent of company code, attaching instead to the field status variant. A separate variant exists in each company code for field status groups in the standard system. The name of the variant is identical to the company code. Each company code is assigned to the variant with the same name.

We are advised to work with the same field status groups in more than one company code, as outlined below:

  1. Maintain field status variants
  2. Assign a company code to the field status variant

Define field status outside of the master record. Mark the field status as needed for each field or field group under a field status group. Then assign the field status group to individual G/L accounts in the G/L account master records.