How to get sales order number when it is created in VA01

Question

hai experts,
i have a requirement , when i create a sales order using transaction VA01 and save the transaction number , after saving i want to catch the sales order number and use in some other fucntion moudle, how can i do that  , should i use the events or any other methods to do the same
regards
m.a

Answer 1

You can call you Z function module either from the workflow or from a BADI' where you can access the newly created sales order the BADi name is BADI_SD_V46H0001 and the method that you need to check is
EXIT_SAPLV46H_003     Customer Function when Creating/Changing Header
You can even call the FM from workflow too, but aganin for tht you need to create a ZBOR, if at all you are using a standard Business object and you hvae to create a new task and include that new task in the workflow by creating a new background Activity step. which I personally feel that you eed to put some more effort to fix the issue.
Instead it is simple and sweet to call that function module from the Method which mentioned. where you can acess the sales document number tooo check int he method parameters.