Assignment fields in down payments

Q: I want to open fields like WBS-element and others in transaction F-29 (or F-37, F-47, F-48) for the customer down payments. How can I find Field Status Group for it?

A: First of all, we need to check customer or vendor reconciliation account. Transaction FD03 or FK03 correspondingly.

Then we need to find alternative reconciliation account for the target Special GL indicator. For example, we need A in case of Down Payment Request F->A. Transactions OBYR and OBXR correspondingly.

Next, check Field Status Group for the alternative reconciliation account in transaction FS00. Double click on the field gives us display of the settings of this Field Status Group. Here we can: 1) check if the field is already open; 2) see Field Status Variant for the Company Code (for future usage).

Once we confirmed on the previous step that field is hidden in the Field Status Group, we go to transaction OBC4. Here we find the necessary Field Status Group (if there are several Field Status Variants, we choose the one we found recently).

Finally, we can open necessary field in the Field Status Group.

 

If field does not appear on the Down Payment Request entry screen after the described procedure, we need to repeat it for the GL account from the Special GL indicator F. 

Not all the accounts assignments are available for the down payment posting. Availability of the field can be checked on the technical screen of down payment entry. Some skills in ABAP-components and navigation within them are required. If field exists on the technical screen, then you can dig further. If field is not there, please think again why would you need this field in the down payments.