Product category discription in the shoping card

Hello SRM gurus,
When the user is trying to create a shoping card , it shows me the last product category discription. I want to make it as a blank so that i can select my desired product category. Can i achieve it instead of last product category discription.
Note: SRM 5.0 I given * in the ext.att
Any clue is appreciated.
Raman

Hi. To get around this you can create a dummy material group called "Please select from list" or something and make it the default for all users in PPOMA_BBP.
Then use the BBP_DOC_CHECK_BADI to make sure that if the material group has not been changed to a valid one issue an error.
Regards,
Dave.

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