PO Release Strategy User-exit

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Phil,
Please make sure you also report this scenario to OSS if you have not done so already and get
the developer's advice on how this user exit is to be used in 4.7.  It's also possible
it may have been replaced by a different option or technique in 4.7 that gives you more options.
Regards,
        Jocelyn Dart
Consultant (SRM, EBP, Workflow)
and co-author of the book
"Practical Workflow for SAP"
SAP Australia
email: jocelyn.dart at sap.com
phone: +61 412 390 267
fax:   +61 2 9935 4880
 
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of mpevans at micron.com
Sent: Saturday,10 January 2004 3:58 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: PO Release Strategy User-exit
 
 
SAP has provided a user-exit (exit_saplebnd_002, include zxm06u22)
intended to allow customer to reset the Release Strategy on the PO (and
other documents).  Since our upgrade to 4.7 we have not been able to
make it work reliably.  We had it working in 4.5, but SAP has changed
how the PO behaves.
 
Changing the Release Strategy is simple.  All we do is set the value of
the variable 'e_cekko-usrc1' to the new release strategy and SAP does
the rest.  The issue is that SAP calls the user-exit more than once.
They call it at least two times: Once when you open the PO and Again on
saving the PO.  If you set 'e_cekko-usrc1' to the new Release Strategy
in the first pass through the user-exit SAP does not reset the
user-exit.
 
In order to make this user-exit to work you must be able to detect that
you are going thorough it for the last time and only on that execution
set the value of 'e_cekko-usrc1'.  Has anyone dealt with this situation
and come up with a good way to determine that you on the last execution
of the user-exit?
 
Thanks for your help.
Phil