Partner function addition

Hi !
I have an existing customer defined as a Ship-to-Party( account group-0002). Now I want to define this customer as a Sold-to-Party(account group 0001).
I tried the same by adding the Sold-to-party in the partner functions tab under Sales Area tab of customer master. But the system is not accepting this and throwing an error message.
Do I have to create a new code for resolving this or is there any way out to add the partner function under the existing code.
Plz help.
Regards,
Shamik

Samik,
If you want to use thsi customer as Sold to party also, you have to change the account group of this customer. For this go to XD07 give the customer number and change the account group to 0001.
But
The field group settings for the present and future account groups should not be conflicting. If this is the case then change of account group should not be done.
For example, say Customer pricing procedure should not be a required field in sold to party, but a hidden field in ship to party. Hope you understand now.
Pls reward if this helps you

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Hi CRM Gurus!,
Even if this problem is present in my Solution Manager Service Desk I'm creating this thread here in CRM Forum because I thin'k I need the experience of one CRM Expert. Í´ve created this question in Solution Manager Forum also but I hadn´t solved my problem yet.
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Hi Vishant,
Thanks for your answer, but some one in the Solution Manager forum gave me the answer few minutes ago :). The problem was that in some transaction types (I don't know wich ones or if it aplies to all) the category 0008 - Person Responsible can only appear once, my partner function was a copy of the function SLFN0004 - Message Processor and that function is defined with the category 0008, so I had 2 partner functions defined in the category 0008.
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OR
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Edited by: veru p on Apr 13, 2010 1:25 PM
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SP, SH, BP, Payer are key to document processing. Automatic partner determination happens in the sales document, delivery and billing documents, sales activities, and the customer master record.
IMG  SD  Basic fncs  Partner fncs, define partner fncs [VOPA]
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2.1.1     Account Group
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Procedure
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No | From      | To | Current No | Ext (Tick in Check Box)
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Use
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Procedure
Access the activity using one of the following navigation options:
IMG > Financial Accounting (New) > Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable > Customer Accounts > Master Data > Preparations for Creating Customer Master Data > Assign Number Ranges to Customer Account Groups
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