Issue when changing a PO: it creates a new output record automatically

Question

Hello,
The goal is to prevent that a new output record is automatically attached to a purchase order after a change has occurred.
Current situation:
Create a PO for holding and an output record is created for output type ZHP1.
Release PO.
Print the PO in ME9F.
Change the condition record in MN05 and change the language of the print to a different language than the one of the supplier.
Change the PO by adding some header text, the system adds a second output on the purchase order in the language of the cond record.
This should not happen.
Any idea how to achieve this goal rather via customizing than new implementation/changing the SAP standard code!
Thank you in advance.
Aydin

Answer 1

Hi, I'm working with Aydin on this issue.
It creates the second message on the PO and if processed via ME9F then it prints.
But we dont want even that the second output gets created.
We do not work with version management so changes to PO do not create second message.
This second message comes up because language code has been changed in MN05 (one time change) after the first print.
System sees that first message on PO is with language A and now condition record is with lang B.
So If I change any little thing on the PO just to trigger message redetermination, it attaches a second output in the lang B. 
If I dont change language code in MN05 and I still do my little change on PO, then it does not attach a second output message (which is good for us)
I thought the only way out is to write a requirement program that would check that if a message already exists on the PO for that output type then dont create a second one. What do you think?
Marc
Edited by: mmlafe on Jan 3, 2012 5:02 PM