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Functionality
You can use this method to read additional information for the businesspartner.
Using additional information you can store customer-specific attributesin the business partner in the form of categorized information types with the assigned fields with F4 input help, textfields, checkboxes, amount fields, currency fields, and date fieldsaccording to user. You can use this additional information for thepurpose of marketing or analysis, or purely for information, forexample.
You can create an infinite number of lower-level information types withcorresponding fields for an information category.You can use information types to further subdivide informationcategories. You can subdivide the information category vehiclesinto the information types convertible, four-by-four, andsports car. You can create additional information in the form oftext, date, amount, and currency fields to the individual vehiclecategories.
If you make the appropriate settings in Customizing, then you canprocess additional information for each differentiation type.Recommendation
We recommend that new customers use only the Easy Enhancement Workbench for enhancing the SAP Business Partnerfor Financial Services data model.
The advantage of the Easy Enhancement Workbench is that you canenhance both the data model and the accompanying services (link toarchiving, change document update, data exchange, and so on). It is theonly tool to be used for making enhancements that is to be supported inthe future.
You can find further information on the Easy Enhancement Workbench
in the SAP Library by choosing SAP NetWeaver->Application Platform (SAP Web Application Server)-> Cross-ApplicationServices-> Easy Enhancement Workbench.
If you use Bank Analyzer pay particular attention to the separatenotes on using additional information that are contained in the SAPLibrary for the primary object Business Partner.Notes Dependencies
The parameters for the method enable more precise details to be givenfor the amount of additional information to be read as the resultingset.
You can determine additional information in Customizing for the SAPBusiness Partner for Financial Services in the IMG activity SetInformation Category by choosing Settings for Financial Services->General Settings-> Enhancement Options-> Additional Information.Return messages
Messages are returned in the Return parameter. You can find thereturn values and their meaning in the parameter documentation.Further information
You will find more information about additional information in theSAP Library by choosing SAP Business Partner for FinancialServices-> Functions-> SAP Business Partner Data-> AdditionalInformation.Description
You can find information about the meaning of the parameter in thecorresponding documentation for the data element:Information Category.Value range
You can find the value range for this parameter in Customizing for theSAP Business Partner for Financial Services in the IMG activitySet Information Category by choosing Settings for FinancialServices-> General Settings-> Enhancement Options-> AdditionalInformation.Description
This parameter is a required (mandatory) parameter.
You can find information about the meaning of the parameter in thecorresponding documentation for the data element:Business Partner Number.Value range
The value range for the parameter corresponds to the value range for thedomain of the data element. Description
You can find information about the meaning of the parameter in thecorresponding documentation for the data element:Counter.Description
You can find information about the meaning of the parameter in thecorresponding documentation for the data element:Differentiation Criterion.Value range
You can find the value range for this parameter in Customizing for theSAP Business Partner for Financial Services in the IMG activityDefine Differentiation Criterion by choosing Settings forFinancial Services-> General Settings-> Basic Settings->Differentiation
.Description
You can find information about the meaning of the parameter in thecorresponding documentation for the data element:Information Type.Value range
You can find the value range for this parameter in Customizing for theSAP Business Partner for Financial Services in the IMG activitySet Information Category by choosing Settings for FinancialServices-> General Settings-> Enhancement Options-> AdditionalInformation.Description
You can find information about the meaning of the parameter in thecorresponding documentation for the data element: DBField Contents Must Be Valid at This Date.Description
This parameter is a required (mandatory) parameter.
You can find information about the meaning of the parameter in thecorresponding documentation for the data element: UTCTime Stamp in Short Form (YYYYMMDDhhmmss).Description
This parameter is a required (mandatory) parameter.
Using additional information you can store customer-specific attributesin the business partner in the form of categorized information types
with the assigned fields with F4 input help, text fields,checkboxes, amount fields, currency fields, and date fields according touser. You can use this additional information for the purpose ofmarketing or analysis, or purely for information, for example.
In the standard system you can process additional information forinformation categories such as vehicles or hobbies.
You can create an infinite number of lower-level information categorieswith corresponding fields. You can use information types to furthersubdivide information categories. You can subdivide the informationcategory vehicles into the information types convertible,four-by-four, and sports car. You can add additionalinformation in the form of text, date, amount, and currency fields tothe individual vehicle categories.
If you make the appropriate settings in Customizing, then you canprocess additional information for each differentiation type.
For more information about the individual parameter fields, see therelevant data element documentation in the ABAP Dictionary.Value range
You can find the value range for this parameter in Customizing for theSAP Business Partner for Financial Services in the IMG activitySet Information Category by choosing Settings for FinancialServices->General Settings -> Enhancement Options-> AdditionalInformation.Description
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