Contents

Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 2
Add “Cancellation Date” to the Incompletion Procedure ......................................................................... 4
Add field to the sales order header – Sales tab as an screen enhancement ............................................ 5
Test results after adding this field to the sales order header screen .................................................... 7
ABAP Coding required ............................................................................................................................... 9
Introduction
It’s often requested by business users to make the sales order header “Cancellation Date” as mandatory
field in the sales order. Incompletion procedure is the standard SAP way of making any sales order field
mandatory.

“Cancellation Date” field is located in the “Item Overview” tab of the sales order.

Though standard SAP delivered sales order incompletion procedure has “Cancellation Date” as a field
available, there is no screen available for the “Item Overview” screen.

You can validate this by checking all screens available in the standard incompletion procedure, under
IMG Path – Sales and Distribution / Basic Functions / Log of Incomplete Items / Define Incompleteness
Procedure.
Select your incompletion procedure assigned to the order type and go to the “Fields” node.

Below are the all screens available for you to assign.

Therefore, you will have to do an enhancement to achieve this. Let’s see how we can achieve this using
an enhancement.

Add “Cancellation Date” to the Incompletion Procedure

First add the sales order “Cancellation Date” field to your incompletion procedure. Assign screen
“KKAU” (Sales order Header – Sales) as the screen against it.
Add field to the sales order header – Sales tab as an screen enhancement
You need to add the “FSH_CANDATE” to sales order header / header tab. This will be a screen
enhancement.

This field should be added to screen number 4301. Program – SAPMV45A

In order to do above, you need to go to transaction SE80.

Select Program from the drop down menu and navigate the screen section.

Go to the screen number 4301 and double click on it.

Right click on the top area and select option “Layout”

Add this new field to the screen.

Test results after adding this field to the sales order header screen
For some reason, addition of “FSH_CANDATE” field to the sales header is not enough. If I try to create a
sales order now, I am getting the incompletion popup for the “Cancellation Date”.
I also can navigate to the sales order header / sales tab to maintain it now using Edit button.
Once maintained, that value automatically get passed to the “Item overview” tab “Cancellation Date”
field as well. However, when I try to save my sales order, system again popup the incompletion
procedure stating “Cancellation Date” is missing.

Therefore we need to edit the respective program to clear the incompletion procedure if this field is
populated. In order to do that, we need to edit the ABAP coding associated in the screen program -
SAPMV45A

ABAP Coding required

In the program - SAPMV45A, we need to clear the structure associated with the incompletion procedure
(XVBUV).
Below is a sample ABAP code that was done.

Once above coding is written, system will not give the incompletion popup.
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