Object Method Usage

[Nobles, Diane]

I created a subtype, but the box for selecting the dialog feature is checked
automatically and grayed out.  I have no control to change this.  Any
suggestions.  We are on 4.6c.
 
Diane H. Nobles
Northrop Grumman-Naptheon
SDE PM Team
(757) 380-7250
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Kjetil Kilhavn [mailto:kjetilk at statoil.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 1:28 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Object Method Usage
 
 
Well, there is always the "easy" way of making a subtype and changing the
method from dialog to background. If you have some nice function modules to
call which do their tricks nicely you shouldn't have a problem. However,
all kinds of problems _may_ occur.
 
I tried to make a background method to release a LIV invoice with payment
blocking (no, I still haven't completely solved the good old case I asked
about here a while ago) due to amount limits on invoices without reference
to purchase orders. This is necessary as none of the BUS2081 methods will
release these invoices. The method used batch input to start MRBR, enter
the required data and release the blocked invoice. No-go since SAP uses
Fancy Tables (FT (tm)) in the implementation of MRBR. The reason is that
for these tables you can not address rows etc in the way you could with
"old-style" tables.
 
After a while (depressing, but true, it took quite a while) I realized that
I could use the "Select all" button since I would only have one row (as I
specified the invoice number). That should do the trick, right? Not at all,
SAP developers have ensured that life will be a pain no matter what you
try. So in the end I had to make it a dialog method, and thus someone has
to execute that step. All they do is execute, and it is gone without the
executing agent seing anything happening.
 
You have been warned :-)
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Good afternoon all.  We want to use an object type method to create a SAP
record.  We want to call the method in the background and create the record
without user intervention.  The current method we want to use is a dialog
method.  Does anyone know of a way to change a method from a dialog to
allow
use of method in background or is this an impossibility.  There is a
CreatefromData method, but apparently it does not provide the same screen
sequence.  Has anyone else ran into this problem and if so what was the
solution???  Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions in this matter.
 
Diane H. Nobles
Northrup Grumman-Naptheon
SDE PM Team
(757) 380-7250
 
 
 
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