Text Control
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Text Control
This is setup when business requires to display text
messages in SD Master data and Sales document.
Master data
Customer master
Condition records
Sales document level
Sales order / contract
Delivery
Billing
Text control
In the document level, text can be displayed both at the
header and item level.
Examples of different types of text in sales order
Reference of previous sales order of the same customer can be
given in the header level text of the sales order
Shipping instructions like delivery of certain items will be done
separately due to different shipping requirements like
refrigeration.
All such different text types are created and grouped
under text objects. Text types from these text objects
can be then referenced and copied in the text of
subsequent documents.
Text Control
Standard Text objects
KNA1 (Group for text types defined in customer master –
General / central level)
KNVV (Group for text types defined in customer master –Sales
area level)
VBBK (Group for text types defined for document type – header
or item level)
Text procedure – It lists all the text types required for
customer master or document.
Text Control
Text procedure determination
Customer master – Based on customer account
group
Document - Based on document type like order /
delivery / billing type and item category
Source for text type can be from different sources. This
is configured assigning access sequence to text type.
Example – Sales note for customer text in sales order can be
searched from reference sales document like contract or
customer master text at sales area / general level.
Text Control
Other features
If for export orders, business need is to make
shipping instructions mandatory then text type for
shipping instructions in text procedure can be made
mandatory.
If in billing document header, text related to payment
terms has to be copied from Payer and not sold-to
party then text type can be configured to copy the text
from Payer master record. Applicable when payer is
different than sold-to party.