Campaign Element generation using coding mask

Hi Friends,
Iam working on the automatic number generation for marketing/campaign plan generation. I have implemented the Note provided by SAP and everything is fine.
The issue is with the campaign elements. I have used the coding mask to generate the campaign elements. Whenever i delete a campaign element and create a new one, the same number is used again. I mean the previously deleted campaign element numbers are generated again.
Is there any standard way to create a new campaign element every time from the coding mask without re-using the deleted campaign elements.
Thanks
Raju

Hello Narayan,
Be more specific? Which version are you in? Is default badi activated? do you have any active custom implementation of Badi CRM_MKTPL_OL_OBJ with code in method "external id generation".
Are you using code masking along with the Badi activation. if you custom implementation of badi CRM_MKTPL_OL_OBJ, make sure you deactivate the default implementation.
Some time this issue might be caused by conflict of multiple implementations active.
Thanks & Regards
Raja Pamireddy
Moderator

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Hi Ahmed
I have gone through help, but i did not get any clue to make use different project IDs for std and operative.
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Raj-
Apply OSS notes 1344009 for missing texts, 1356415 for german words in english version, 1365089 for overlap of person responsible.
And also browse the service market place for relevant oss notes base don the application qm-pt-fa, hardly you have 76 - most of them you need to get FMEA function correctly eventhough you may not be using all FMEA functionalities.
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