Professional Documents
Culture Documents
By Sarang Kahu
1.Business Case
SAP R/3 systems send out data through IDoc (Intermediate Document), which in internally has
segments and fields containing the data. But sometimes, these fields are not sufficient for a specific
end-to-end business scenario as far as data transfer is concerned. So in such scenario, either few fields
are to be added or subtracted, or completely new structure- IDoc needs to be created. This are called as
Custom – IDOC Types. Following blog gives out step-by-step approach for creation of the same.
Now, it takes you to following screen. Here you can add description for your IDoc type. Also you can
specify name of existing IDoc for Copy or Successor mode.
Now, you can maintain attributes of the custom IDoc, which consists of attaching segment type created
above to the IDoc type. Also specifying the details of frequency of these segments getting filled i.e.
Maximum and Minimum number. Fill the necessary details and release this IDoc type as well.
Run T-code ‘WE81’ to create the logical message types. Go to Edit mode and click New Entry to go to
following screen.