Default product category

Hi Experts,
I am having a problem with the 'default' product category function:
If I DO NOT set the indicator for making a product category as default, SRM takes the last one from the list in extended attributes?
I would like the field 'product category' in the shopping cart to be blank?
Can anyone help me?
BR. Kim

Hi,
Which SRM version are you using ?
It's a standard SAP behaviour.
Product categories have to be available into SRM !! It is a mandatory master data.
You can use method ENRICH_ITEM_DATA in BADI BBP_CATALOG_TRANSFER to do this.
To change data (product category...) from the catalog to the shopping cart, please use BBP_CATALOG_TRANSFER badi.
Or
Implement the BADI "BBP_F4_READ_ON_ENTRY".
Or
Implement combination of BBP_DOC_CHANGE_BADI as well as BBP_DOC_CHECK_BADI.
See the following useful pointers for detailed help and source code:-
Re: Shopping cart creation category dropdown selecting the most used category
Punchout Product Category Default
The 'Category' list box should be empty when creating a shopping cart
Re: How to enable "shop on behalf" functionality in BBPSC03 ?
Re: How to stop a new Prod Categ from becoming 'default' display when shopping
Re: search help results of cost center
Re: No authorization to purchase from product category
Re: make Category id field blank in Describe requirement
You can use the field CATEGORY_ID in the structure BBP_OCI_ENRITEM for the Product Category.
Hope this will help. Do let me know.
Regards
- Atul

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