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2776636 - Employee Responsible Removed After Mass Re-Assignment of Employee Responsible in Opportunities

Symptom

The Employee Responsible is removed after the Mass re-assignment of Employee Responsible in Opportunities

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the New Business work center.
  2. Select the Opportunity List view.
  3. Select a number of Opportunities.
  4. Click on the Actions button and select the Assign Party option.
  5. In the Party Role select Employee Responsible.
  6. In the Name select employee responsible XYZ (XYZ represents the name of the Employee Responsible).
  7. Click on OK.
  8. The following error message is displayed: "Using business partner 80000XXXXX (XYZ) not permitted; status in master data Not Active"
  9. The old Employee Responsible Is removed from the selected Opportunities.

Cause

Since employee responsible XYZ is not Active no Employee Responsible can be assigned to the Opportunities and therefore the Employee Responsible field is empty.

Resolution

Assign an Employee Responsible which has the status Active.

See Also

2788386 - How to Mass Change Employee Responsible in Opportunities

Keywords

master data Not Active; Employee Responsible; Mass Re-Assignment; Mass Change; Opportunity; Opportunities , KBA , AP-OP-OP , Opportunity , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign 1902 ; SAP Business ByDesign 1908