Any Enhancement Point/Spot that serves like BADI(MB_DOCUMENT_BADI) on MSEG?

Hi Experts,
I need to populate around 10 standard SAP fields and 8 custom fields on MSEG(material document item table) record, WHILE the material document is creating or CONFIRMING the delivery or SHIPEMENT confirmation. In this process I found an a BADI (MB_DOCUMENT_BADI), well, this BADI does not having CHANGING parameters of MSEG.....pls. let me know any other user-exit ot BADI which serves my requirement?
Actually, I tried to do it by suing field-symbols (below code) in this BADI, but still my values are not reflecting!
FIELD-SYMBOLS: <SGTXT> TYPE any,
<SGTXT_1> TYPE any.
ASSIGN '(SAPMM07M)MSEG-SGTXT' TO <SGTXT>.
CHECK SY-SUBRC = 0.
assign (<SGTXT>) to <SGTXT_1>.
CHECK SY-SUBRC = 0.
<SGTXT_1> = 'MY_TEST'.
assign (<SGTXT_1>) to <SGTXT>.
endmethod.
Thank you

I found that this BADI itself is migrating.
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    Acrobat xi - RE: Add sound icon- skin displayed is a 'blank white box' until it is clicked to activate it- can you lock skin to display before its activated so that in a print run the skin shows up (ie the controls-or any kind of greyed out rectangle, like video controls before 1st activation) and not the blank white box- if no, I guess I have to activate all sound icons before doing a print run?thanks)).

    Many of your points are totally legitimate.
    This one, however, is not:
    …To put it another way, the design of the site seems to be geared much more towards its regular users than those the site is supposedly trying to "help"…
    The design and management of the forums for more than five years have driven literally dozens of the most valuable contributors and "regulars" away from the forums—permanently.
    The only conclusion a prudent, reasonable person can draw from this state of affairs is that Adobe consciously and deliberately want to kill these forums by attrition—without a the PR hit they would otherwise take if they suddenly just shut them down.

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