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SAP Business Partner is a powerful mechanism to represent business entities and their relationships. In this blog, we present Business Partner Extensibility / Enhancement Techniques using EEWB (Easy Enhancement Workbench) or BDT (Business Data Toolset), VCT (Visual Configuration Tool) or Field Grouping. Introduction In many business process scenarios or customer requirement, we need to store additional data/attributes for business partner or we need to change screen sequence of transaction BP or behavior of flow logic. In SAP, Business Partner object is designed to enable you to make such extensions/ enhancements to it, as screen sequence change, addition of fields. Following extensions can be achieved using EEWB (Easy Enhancement Workbench) or BDT (Business Data Toolset), VCT (Visual Configuration Tool) or Field Grouping. Additional fields on existing or additional screen Additional Role for Business Partner Additional Validation on SAP or Z fields New Relationship Categories Screen Field/ Section/ Tab Label(Caption) change Screen field Attributes ( Display/Hide/Read Only/ Mandatory) control Easy Enhancement Workbench (EEW) Easy and efficient way to expand business partner master data, using this we can add new fields for central business partner data, New tables for central business partner data (1:1 or 1:n), Enhancement of Business partner (Business Object) is possible via Wizard provided by SAP (T-code EEWB). Wizard takes care of addition of new fields and new tables to Business Partner and all related development work for the user; databank tables, screens and application logic are created automatically. Wizard guides the user through the extensive process, extensive knowledge of development environment and data model is not required. EEWB wizard enables easy prototyping, no modification; no manual programming required; also retains all development and modifications in the case of SAP upgrades. Change Screen Configuration using Visual Configuration Tool (VCT) With the Visual Configuration Tool (VCT), we can change the screens and screen sequences supplied by SAP in Customizing by dragging and dropping. Like all Customizing activities, these changes are linked to transports. Changes made by customers are not affected by release updates; in other words, customer changes will not be overwritten by SAP when a new release is installed. We can configure each individual business partner role this mean we can define/configure Role specific settings. We can use the Visual Configuration Tool (VCT) to change the layout of screens, for example, to group together several screens change the frame or screen title

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change the order of screensThe original SAP configuration remains in the system and can be re-activated at any time. Business Data Toolset (BDT) The BDT (Business Data Tool Set)is a central control for the maintenance of master data and basic transaction data, the BDT control and generic parts and calls the application by selecting given interfaces (control and timing tables on). The applications in turn bring user-specific developments (eg for reading and writing of an application tables). Using BDT you can achieve following objectives Additional Check/Validation logic for existing fields/ Views. New Fields on BP Transaction code Pre-requisites Extend Table BUT000 using SE11. Additional Field Groupings/ Tab/Section Caption change. The BDT supports the following entities in screen layoutField group A field group contain field/ fields View Contains one or more Field Group Section Contains one or more View Screen Contains one or more Section Transactions for BDTBUPT to view the BDT menu BUS2 FIELD GROUP BUS3 VIEWS BUS4 SECTIONS BUS5 SCREENS BUS7 EVENT HANDLINGS Activities for BDT Development0001 Applications 0002 Field Groups 0003 Views 0004 Sections 0005 Screens 0006 Screen Sequences 0007 Events 0008 GUI Standard Functions 0009 GUI Additional Functions 0010 Search Help 0011 Assign Screen FieldDB Field 0012 Field Grouping Criteria 0013 Object Parts 0014 Object Part Grouping 0015 Application Transactions 0016 Tables 0017 External Applications 0100 Field Grouping per Activity Type 0101 Field Grouping per Object Part 0102 Authorization Types 0103 Field Groups for Authorization 0104 Screen Configuration 0105 Field Grouping per External Application 0200 Change Document Lists BDT Events BDT Event ISSTA Description Initialization

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DINP1 PAI ISDAT ISDST AUTH1 DINP2 XCHNG DSAVB DCHCK DTAKE DLVE1 DSAVC DSAVE

Transfers data in non-dialog processing (initial screen) After input Loads data to the current memory Distributes data to participating applications Executes authorization checks Transfers data in non-dialog processing (data screen) Checks whether data has been changed Collects data for the owner application Checks data in the current memory Copies data from the current memory to the global memory Initializes the current memory Completes the data before saving Saves data in the database

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Tags: SAP BDT, SAP BP Customization, SAP Business Partner, SAP EEWB Easy Enhancement Workbench, SAP Field Grouping, SAP Financial Services, SAP Loans Management, SAP VCT | Category: SAP, SAP ABAP, SAP ECC

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