VD01 XD01 create address with required entry fields

Question

Since upgrading to 4.7 all of the users who have to enter customer and vendor addresses complain of the similar problems.
Some of the fields are required entry, but the 'more fields' icon cannot be selected until these fields are completed.
These fields are not the whole address, only those that are essential, NAME1,Search term, post code, country code and a couple of others.
The users would like to enter the address in its' more natural format eg
name1
name2
street
region
post code
etc.
I cannot find how to either, auto expand the address screen on entry to the screen or allow for the screen to be expanded manually without the error. The client requires the mandatory fields, so these cannot be unflagged.
thanks in advance
Alan

Answer 1

Dear Holger,
After my tests I would like to inform you that this is
the standard system behavior as the document description field is
maintained as mandatory in transaction DC10. Please note that for the
simple creation of documents this should not be set as a mandatory
field.
The creation mode can be defined in transaction DC10 for each object
under 'Define object links'.
Please note that the value "1" for the creation of documents is used
to enable a user to simple attache a word file to an object
without going to the transaction CV01n. Therefore the system behaviour
is different then creating a document by CV01n and attaching a
file to it. With simple creation mode there should not be any
mandatory fields as the user cannot enter anything during the creation
process.
If you want to keep the "simple creation" mode then maybe BADI DOCUMENT_MAIN01 could be useful to hand over an "automatic" description value.
Best regards,
Christoph