Clicking on \u201cField names\u201d toggles between displaying technical fieldnames versus field descriptions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.dab-europe.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20150905_changes-tables_tcodes_D_02.png\")
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By double-clicking it is possible to display even more details regarding a certain change event, for example old and new value, the user who performed the change and the exact timestamp when this was done.<\/p>\n
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All transactions listed above look and work similar. Transaction FD24 is the second example. It displays changes related to customer credit management. When starting the transaction, it asks for selection criterias like customer number (mandatory) and credit control area or time range.<\/p>\n
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The result looks similar to the one before as well. It contains a list of changes in the context of credit limit management. This not only includes changes of the limit itself, but also blocks, risk category, customer group or rating changes.<\/p>\n
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Double-clicking on such entries works just as before and allows us to dive into the details. For taking the screenshot, I double-clicked on the line \u201ecredit limit\u201c line.<\/p>\n
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2. SAP Reports to create a list display of changes<\/h2>\n
While the way I just described requires a partner number as selection parameter, sometimes a more general approach is necessary. This can be solved for example by calling SAP reports like S_ALR_87012089 or S_ALR_87012090 for vendors and S_ALR_87012182 or S_ALR_87012183 for customers.<\/p>\n
The next screenshot shows report \u201eS_ALR_87012089\u201d. Obviously it can be used for displaying changes for several vendors at once, or even the changes for all vendors, if no selection parameters are filled in (there are no mandatory fields in this screen).<\/p>\n
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I entered a range of vendor numbers, company codes and purchasing organization and restricted the time range to the years of 2000-2004. The result contains a list of all changes corresponding to the selection parameters which were entered before:<\/p>\n
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Using such reports is a great way to list changes. However it needs to be considered that displaying \u201call\u201d vendors for all company codes and purchase organizations can take a while to perform. It depends on the data volume of the SAP system you are working with \u2013 if it contains a big change history already, you should consider restricting the result by entering appropriate selection criteria.<\/p>\n
3. Branching to display change information using the SAP menu<\/h2>\n
The two ways we looked at allow us to display changes for \u201ebusiness objects\u201c like partners (vendors, customers) or a certain document (financial transaction). But how can we display changes for which no special report or transaction code exists? Maybe option 3 is helpful for you then: A lot of transactions allow to branch from their menu to a list of changes related to what you are currently looking at. Let\u2019s take a purchase order in SAP for example:<\/p>\n
Starting point is to display the purchase order (\u201ePO\u201c) as usual, for example using T-Code ME23N. Once the PO is on screen, we can go to the menu under \u201cEnvironment\u201d select between \u201cHeader changes\u201d or \u201cItem changes\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Selecting the first item by highlighting line 10 and choosing \u201eItem changes\u201c displays all values which have been altered for this purchase order line.<\/p>\n
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The option to branch to a change display is embedded in several SAP transactions. Another example is to display a vendor using T-Code XK03, and then using the similar way of going to \u201cEnvironment-> Account Changes\u201d via the menu bar.
I hope that this article gave you a solid overview about different ways of how to display changes in SAP, and that you will benefit from it in your daily analytic work. Contact us if you have any further questions!<\/p>\n\n\n
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