RFBIDE00 - Address data issue

Question

Hi,
I want to populate the street2 and street3 fields of the customer master when uploading master data with LSMW using standard program - RFBIDE00 (Batch Input Program).
These fields are not available in structure BKNA1 provided by the standard program. I tried to use structure BIADDR2 instead. The data is converted properly and show in the structure. But, when I run the generated session, the fields for street2 and street3 are not populated.
Has anyone done this?
Much appreciate if you let me know how to do this?
Thanks,
Shyam

Answer 1

Hi Shyam,
Central address management fields cannot be transferred using the standard program. You have to do a second pass at it to get the full centrally managed address fields. Read documentation of the program. Here is an excerpt from it.
<i>Additional address fields:
There are additional address fields available due to linking the customer and vendor master and the respective contact person to central address management. This additional address information is stored in central address management's own tables not in the actual master tables (KNA1 for the customer master, LFA1 for the vendor master, KNVK for the contact person).
A separate transfer run via the ALE interface is needed to transfer this additional address information. This run should be before the transfer run for master data.
See Transfer of address data
If you use number ranges with internal number assignment when creating new customer and vendor masters, the number which is used to identify the master object in the system must be determined beforehand due to address information and master data being transferred separately.
You can determine the numbers using the following BAPIs:
BAPI_VENDOR_GETINTNUMBER (for the vendor master)
BAPI_CUSTOMER_GETINTNUMBER (for the customer master)
BAPI_PARTNEREMPLOYEE_GETINTNUM (for the contact person)
Master data fields for which there is a counterpart in central address management (such as name, street, or telephone number) continue to be filled in the actual master tables. The formatting for these fields within central address management is different from the original formatting of the fields without the link to central address management. We therefore recommend that you only transfer the data for such fields when transferring central address management address information.</i>
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Regards,
Srinivas