Creating structured texts for purchase requisitions

Question

Hello,
I would like to know if it's possible to define structured texts for purchase requisitions. By example, the item text would be like this :
Building :
Room :
and the user should only complete the missing information.
Does anybody have an idea on how to realize this ?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi,
It is not a simple thing to do.
The item text comes from the material master (if you are using one) and so you could easily have the text for that as "Building   Room" and the material text can be changed (if you configure the system correctly) so they could just add the information.
But you are limited to the size of the material text and so many people just use a non-material approach and manually key in the information in the text options rather than the Item text on the requisition line on the main screen. But in this case it is not a standard option to preformat the text as you require.
It is almost as if configurable materials may help, these use the classification function and so they have characteristics, it would be easy enough to have a characteristic for room and one for building. The user would then be prompted to enter just the values for each and so it would do exactly what you need.
But I don't have enough detailed experience of configurable materials to know for sure that you could use them like this, perhaps someone who knows them well could confirm if this would work?
Whatever happens it is not a simple standard option, but SAP is very flexible and so there may be a reasonable work-around option.
Steve B