To change user status profile on sales order at run time.

Question

Hi Experts,
We have defined status profile for Sales returns ( Doc type RE) which blocks the  return order on creation. There are two statuses here which are to remove the delivery block and to remove the billing block by authorised users.
The requirement is now to have a three level block ( three statuses ) on the same document. We can create a new status profile and assign it to a new return sales order tpye  but we want to avoid creating new document types. Since this document type is used across various companies in the group we can not assign a new profile on the existing RE document as well.
My question to all experts is
Is it possible to dynamically change the status profile assigned to the document type based on characterstics like sales org or company code etc? If any body has done this please let me know the user exit , function module, BADI etc where the necessary coding has been done.
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I look forward to your co operation.
Regards,
Kartik Shah

Answer 1

Hi Liam,
In the Program MV45AFZZ in the FORM userexit_save_document
you use the following fn module to change the user status
'STATUS_CHANGE_EXTERN'
Example
IF t180-trtyp = 'H'.  "Only creation time
  READ TABLE xvbap WITH KEY matnr = c_matnr.
  IF sy-subrc = 0.  "If above material exist then change status
    LOOP AT xvbap WHERE cuobj NE space
                   AND  matnr =  c_matnr.
      l_objnr = xvbap-objnr.
      CALL FUNCTION 'STATUS_CHANGE_EXTERN'
        EXPORTING
          objnr               = l_objnr
          user_status         = 'E0013'  "Send ej IDOC
          set_chgkz           = 'X'
        EXCEPTIONS
          object_not_found    = 1
          status_inconsistent = 2
          status_not_allowed  = 3
          OTHERS              = 4.
    ENDLOOP.
  ENDIF.
  sy-subrc = 0.  "Restore the previous condition
ENDIF.
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