Procedure to Error Out Outbound IDocs

Question

Hello,
         I have a Requirement in which I am using ORDERS05 IDoc Type and extended it to ZORDER05 to populate Custom Fields and sending the Purchase Order Outbound IDoc to the Vendor from SAP System. Now, my requirement is that if any of the Custom Fields are not maintained in SAP and not populated in the IDoc, I need to Error Out the IDoc with Error Status 26. I am currently working on the SAP ECC 5.0. I have implemented similar Error Handling Mechanism earlier by using Enhancement Framework as I was working in ECC 6.0 environment where I've added the Code by Creating an Enhancement Implementation in the Function Module IDOC_CREATE_ON_DATABASE. But since ECC 5.0 does not have the Enhancement Framework feature,  please let me know how to achieve this.
Thank You,
Venkata Phani Prasad K

Answer 1

Hi
why don't you try using the standard method for validation of data?
By implementing the customer-function EXIT_SAPLEINM_002 or BAdI MM_EDI_ORDERS_OUT  you can make checks of completeness of the idoc segments (in your case, additional custom data) and, if they were not complete, report an error message raising the exception DATA_NOT_RELEVANT_FOR_SENDING
ie
if <Idoc Custom Field> is initial.
MESSAGE ID 'S1'
               TYPE 'E'
               NUMBER '333'
               WITH Additional data are incomplete' 
               RAISING data_not_relevant_for_sending.
endif.
Thus you have the evidence of the error in the processing log of the output message while the IDOC is not created.
The solution works very well and is not invasive.
Regards.
Andrea