SAP PS, Project Budget Tolerance Limit

This post will be short and straightforward one and will be covering PS basics, but in case you find it useful, GOOD! :)

So, assume, you've set project budget tolerance limit to 15% for the Group and now certain entities are willing to change it to 10%, i.e. you they wanting system to hard stop any Project/WBS related activities, when budget exceeds 10%.

I'd do the following in this case:

(a) create additional Project Profile in V_TBPFD_P view (SM30 or check for configuration t-code in SPRO), you should be having something like following:

AS IS:

CoAr.    PROF.  DESCRIPTION            TR.GRP     ACT.      USAGE:
XYZ 0 General budget profile ++               1 105,00
XYZ 0 General budget profile ++               3 115,00

TO BE:
CoAr.    PROF.  DESCRIPTION            TR.GRP     ACT.      USAGE:
XYZ 0 General budget profile ++               1 105,00
XYZ 0 General budget profile ++               3 115,00
XYZ 1 General budget profile ++               3 110,00

(b) create new substitution step that is valid for Project System via OPSN t-code, substition to be something like following:

(c) activate the new substitution for all of the Project Profiles in following way:

And this is it. Now that you'll be creating new WBS element, system will be defaulting 'Budget Profile' field value to '0' initially, but once you save WBS element, 'Project Profile' field value will be replaced with '1' ,hence new project tolerance limit will be applied.

SAP FI, Defaulting of 'Tax Reporting Date' (BKPF-VATDATE) in FB01 t-code

As per SAP standard, Tax Reporting Date in Document Header section of FB01 t-code is being defaulted with Posting Date. Let's assume, you're required to enhance it so that it stops defaulting the value in Tax Reporting Date field or ,as an example, you want it to be defaulted with Document Date field value.
Note that below described approach is not supported by SAP standard, so I'd advise you to discuss the approach with your ABAP people.

SE18 t-code:
Enhancement Spot VATDATE_RULES with the BADI definition VATDATE_VALUES.
A default implementation: VATDATE_VALUES_DEFAULT_SAP

Create Z* enhancement implementation:

And add the following logic into it:

IF BKPF-BUKRS= 'this and that' then BKPF-VATDATE to be equal to BKPF- BLDAT when posting document through FB01, FB60, MIRO and VF01 t-codes.

That's about it :) 

SAP MM, Material Ledger, post New G/L migration issue with J* reports

Suppose New G/L migration is happening in FY 2020, and ,out of the blue, J1GGL report stops displaying data for the specified ledger(s) for G/L accounts, which is linked to GLT0 table update post New G/L migration.
When asking SAP, they might advise you to take a look at the following SAP note # 923946 with some correction instructions provided in it, which ,in fact, is not solving the issue with J* reports. Programs that can be affected are as following:
J_1GALTB Ledger Trial Balance (Official)
J_1GALTL Update A/L (FI) from SPL
J_1GGL000 Detailed Ledger
J_1GJR_ROUTINES Document Journal
J_1GSL000 Summarized Ledger
J_1GTBAC0 Ledger Trial Balance in ASCII file
J_1GTBGL0 Ledger Trial Balance (Unofficial)
J_1GVL_ALPOST_DI Analytical Ledger (A/L) postings for Materials
J_1GVL_WHBT05 Read actual values for given WHB column

In reality workaround to the issue is as simple as below:

(1) Execute J1GGL for ALL of the the prior to FY 2020 fiscal years (i.e. all of the FYs prior to New G/L migration). I believe, some FM is being re-generated at this step. If you know FM technicalities, then just re-generating it via SE37 should be enough (and share FM naming in comments section!:))

(2) Execute J1GGL for the FY 2020 and validate whether now data is being displayed correctly. 

SAP FI, Adding of user-specific fields into Asset standard reportings (for example, Asset Balances report)

Suppose requirement is to add user- specific field Transaction Type into Asset Balances report, in order to do so, ANEP table needs to be added into OAVI t-code/or V_T086_N view, which is not possible through SAP standard restrictions.

So below approach is aimed to enhance Asset Balances report with this regards, which is ,once again, is not supported by SAP standard.

SE38: RABEWG_ALV01 program

Structure: FIAA_SALVTAB_RABEWG

Component: .INCLUDE to be copied into new ZFIAA_SALVTAB component, by using Append Structure, highlighted on above screenshot.

Component type is FIAA_SALVTAB_ALL.

Add BWASL into newly created component ZFIAA_SALVTAB:

Check whether ANEPV-BWASL will be available in ALV fields on RABEWG_ALV01 report.

Alternatively, validate whether adding ANEPV-BWASL into structure CI_REPRABEWG can be applicable.

NW, Portal, switching between users

So..
When working in Portal, you want to switch between users ,and when you try to do so, it appears that IE is logging- in with previous credentials.
This appeared not to be Portal issue or something.
All you need to do in this case is following:

GO TO IE settings;
'Advanced' tab;
Scroll down to 'Security' menu;
Tick 'Empty Temporary IE files when browser is closed'

SAVE
Restart

That's about it.

Now every time IE is closed, your NW session is getting closed as well and with following run, you will have to enter credentials of new user.

J1UFTVG, FK888 error message

While trying to generate batch input, following error may occur (not just in that particular specified t-code, but pretty much everywhere, where SM35 is getting called):

Enter a valid date (for example, 03/30/2017)

Message No. FK888

Diagnosis

A non-existent date was entered.

System Response

The program was terminated.

Procedure

Enter a valid date or inform the System manager.

Solution is- to change date format in user settings from MM/DD/YYYY to DD.MM.YYYY, log- out and log- in again and re-run the problematic t-code.

Unreleasing of released tasks/TRs

To all the Basis people out there: tasks and requests CAN be unreleased via RDDIT076 program.

Just specify request/or task on one single field of above mentioned program:

Switch to 'Change' mode and change status of released request/or a task from 'R' to 'D' (which stands for modifiable):

Easy as it is.