SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

1699377 - Is it Possible to Have Business Partner ID More Than 10 Characters

Symptom

You have a requirement to have a Business Partner (Accounts, Contacts and so on) ID with more than 10 characters but it is not possible to change the Total Length of the Business Partner more than 10 characters.

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Business configuration work center.
  2. Select Implementation Projects View.
  3. Select a project and select open Activity list button.
  4. Select Fine-Tune chevron.
  5. Select All Activities in the Show field.
  6. Select General Business Partner activity.
  7. Select Define Number Range for Business Partners link.

Here the Total Length is maintained as 10 and the field is read only.



Cause

This Filed is not editable and it is fixed to 10.

Resolution

The Total length of a Business Partner is fixed to 10 character and is the actual system behavior. In the same way manual or automatic settings cannot be changed for Business Partner.

Keywords

Total Length, Business Partner Length, ID length , KBA , SRD-MD-BP , Business Partner , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions ; SAP Cloud for Customer add-ins all versions