Storing transaction data in target group

Hi all,
I understand that a target group is basically a collection of business partners however I have a requirement to also store some attributes of a transaction within the target group in order to drive outbound communication.
Does anybody know if this is possible and if yes how is this done? I know that there is a target group in which objects (iobjects) are stored together with the business partner but can we define our own target group table(s) so that we can store our own details besides just the business partner?
Thanks,
John

Hi John,
sorry, but it is not possible to store additional data when selecting a Target Group for performance reasons. Maybe you could retrieve the information when executing the campaign?
Hope that helps
--klaus

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Hi Hongfa,
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Why APO transaction data is not stored in tables.
can u explain me.
Babu

Good question Babu,
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Hi everybody.
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Hello,
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Best regards, Jasmin

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I want to send the mails using target group to customer who is having Perticular vehicle type for that i have created Infoset using the Ztable, then i have created the data source for target group still i m not getting the desired result !!!!!!
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PD
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Hi there,
I am currently trying to create a target group based on the business partner email address only.
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Kind regard
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Hi JoJo ,
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REPORT zexcel.
* G L O B A L D A T A D E C L A R A T I O N
TYPE-POOLS : ole2.
TYPES : BEGIN OF typ_xl_line,
email TYPE ad_smtpadr,
END OF typ_xl_line.
TYPES : typ_xl_tab TYPE TABLE OF typ_xl_line.
DATA : t_data TYPE typ_xl_tab,
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       ls_bu_guid TYPE bu_partner_guid,
       lt_guids TYPE TABLE OF bapi1185_bp,
       ls_guids TYPE bapi1185_bp,
       lt_return TYPE bapiret2_t.
* S E L E C T I O N S C R E E N L A Y O U T
PARAMETERS : p_xfile TYPE localfile,
              p_tgguid TYPE bapi1185_key .
* E V E N T - A T S E L E C T I O N S C R E E N
AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON VALUE-REQUEST FOR p_xfile.
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     IMPORTING
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       no_batch         = 2
       selection_cancel = 3
       selection_error = 4
       OTHERS           = 5.
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* E V E N T - S T A R T O F S E L E C T I O N
START-OF-SELECTION.
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   CHANGING t_data.
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but000~partner =
   but020~partner
     INNER JOIN adr6 ON but020~addrnumber = adr6~addrnumber INTO TABLE
lt_bu_guid FOR ALL ENTRIES IN t_data WHERE adr6~smtp_addr =
t_data-email.
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     ls_guids-bupartnerguid = ls_bu_guid.
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*       text
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Just copy paste the code and run the report select any local xls file with emails and pass the target group guid.
snap shot of excel file:
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After reading your post, what i understand is that there is no existing relationship present in CRM system between the Org BP and the contact person BP.
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Regards
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Hi experts,
Please help in this regard.
we are loading the data from two insources to one data target. two insources are :
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we have scenario like this please give your valauble inputs.
I am still perplexed by the "Overlapping" option. Why doesn't the "Same or more comprehensive" option work? The requests we want it to replace have identical Data Selection because they were loaded by the same InfoPackage. The InfoPackage "Load Transactional Data Current Year: 0PU_IS_PS_2" (ZPAK_3RUTSXU2BWPBKELMBE0T6NS3U) uses the "Same or more comprehensive" option and it does delete previous requests. What is different about 0PM_OM_OPA_1?
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