Problems with bill copying control and materials with variant configuration

Question

Hi experts,
I have a problem with a bill copying control and the way that my customer is trying to create and print the Bill (VF01).
Let me explain...They have in a Sales Order a material with variant configuration per position, each one can have many characteristics. This characteristics must be printing on the billing document, creating different bills 'coz the max. lines number is 18, so the bill must change page per material-characteristics.
Example:
Max. Number Lines = 3
Position 10      
Material A     
     -Characteristic A
     -Characteristic B
     -Characteristic C     (Bill 1) 
     -Characteristic D
     -Characteristic E
     -Characteristic F     (Bill 2)
Position 20
Material B     
     -Characteristic A     (Bill 3) counting characteristics upside
     -Characteristic B
     -Characteristic C
     -Characteristic D     (Bill 4)
I created on Tx VOFM (Data Transfer-Billing documents) a routine trying to control this jump, but my problem is when I'm creating the Bill document (VF01) this work only by position, the debugging enter per position.. so I don't have any control to tell the program must count the characteristics and create another bill.
So... Somebody can help me..or have any idea to solve this problem.....
Thxs a lot!!!!
Diego Helfer

Answer 1

HI Diego
  For our coming assignment, we do have similar sort of situation. Currently we are in Requirements Gathering phase.
  Though we do not have Variant Configuration in place, we do have restriction for no..of items to be used for printing in Billing Documents.
  Current proposal is that we will restrict at Sales Order Creation. If the number of items are increasing, we will restrict saving the document and loading has to be done again. As itz better to restrict at initial phase.
  Our schema is One Sales Order -> One Delivery -> One Billig Document.
   Will post if we can manage to acheive some other way and do request you the same.
Kind Regards
Eswar