SAP Tip: How to Set Mandatory field for Standard SAP Report

February 2, 2010 by mySAP
Filed under: SAP Tip

The question is whether it’s possible to define a field as mandatory for standard SAP report such as FBL1N, FBL3N, FBL5N transaction. For example you need to define the field “Company code” as mandatory for these SAP transactions.

We can set the mandatory field as you want by creating variant for SAP transactions (such as FBL5N (Customer Line item display) transaction, for example).

Go to FBL5N transactions and click on save icon where make company code mandatory, define your variant name and save as default variant. In turn make settings for particular users so that when they execute this report variant will be defaulted and unable to be changed.

Also, once you execute the items in FBL5N transaction, then on the next screen you will get the option of “Change Layout” on top menu bar. In that, click on company code and include it in your current layout. Then click on ‘save’ button and save it as a variant say TEST001 and set it as default.

Next time you will always get the report in that format, where your compulsory field will exist.