Copy text from PO to SO

Question

Hi All,
Is it possible to copy text from the Purchase Order to Sales Order? I checked the Tcode VOTXN i do not see any text definitions in there for PO. Also I realized the text objects are not the same for PO and SO. Can any one confirm if the text copy is possible from PO to SO please?
I looked in SDN posts but did not find any helpful ones. Any suggestions are much appreciated.
Thank in advance,
Karuna.

Answer 1

Hi
Yes u can do it.
I don't believe it's possible to link PO texts to SO texts, but perhaps it can create a routine in order to get the text from PO and copy to SO.
Anyway if it can use the abose solution I can give you this my experience:
In my enviroment there's an external system creates the sales order via BAPI, he problem was some time the texts weren't formatted well, so I've inserted the following lines in a user-exit USEREXIT_SAVE_DOCUMENT_PREPARE in order to format the text again:
IF VBAK-VBELN IS INITIAL. "If sales order is being created
    SELECT SINGLE SPRAS FROM KNA1 INTO TXT_LANG
      WHERE KUNNR = VBAK-KUNNR.
    TEXT_NAME = 'XXXXXXXXXX'.
  CALL FUNCTION 'READ_TEXT'        "Read text                   
    EXPORTING
      ID                      = ID
      LANGUAGE                = LANGUAGE
      NAME                    = NAME
      OBJECT                  = OBJECT
    IMPORTING
      HEADER                  = HEADER
    TABLES
      LINES                   = TLINES
    EXCEPTIONS
      ID                      = 1
      LANGUAGE                = 2
      NAME                    = 3
      NOT_FOUND               = 4
      OBJECT                  = 5
      REFERENCE_CHECK         = 6
      WRONG_ACCESS_TO_ARCHIVE = 7
      OTHERS                  = 8.
  IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
    EXIT.
  ENDIF.
  REFRESH TEXT_STREAM.
  LOOP AT TLINES.
    APPEND TLINES-TDLINE TO TEXT_STREAM.
  ENDLOOP.
  IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
    EXIT.
  ENDIF.
  REFRESH TLINES.
  CALL FUNCTION 'CONVERT_STREAM_TO_ITF_TEXT'
    TABLES
      TEXT_STREAM = TEXT_STREAM
      ITF_TEXT    = TLINES.
  CALL FUNCTION 'SAVE_TEXT' " Save text
    EXPORTING
      HEADER   = HEADER
    TABLES
      LINES    = TLINES
    EXCEPTIONS
      ID       = 1
      LANGUAGE = 2
      NAME     = 3
      OBJECT   = 4
      OTHERS   = 5.
  IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
    EXIT.
  ENDIF.
  ENDIF.
In this situation I've got a text transfered via BAPI and changed it, but perhaps u can read the text from PO and transfer it to SO
Max