How to create and test a custom PPF Action
PPF Action is a tool for the generic execution of functions and processes. Help in triggering actions like Print, email fax, and labels.
It also triggers automatic subsequent documents and workflow.
PPF Purpose:
- Printing
- Communication with other systems like SAP ERP or GTS
- Sending XI messages
- Asynchronous updates between business objects within SAP EWM
- Execution of loosely coupled actions into the business process with the goal of having a separate application log
- Generic option to enable customer extensions of SAP EWM processes, especially for asynchronous processes, printing and workflow
The below example is done for Warehouse Order related PPFs, but the same process applies to all other PPFs.
Navigate to the associated config in SPRO
Select the relevant Action Profile
Select the Action Definition you want to copy.
Give your PPF Action a name. It must not be the same as the one you’ve copied else it will be difficult to identify when you maintain the PPF Condition shown later in this document.
Copy all the associated entries
Save your changes
Make sure your action is not marked as “Inactive”
Select the Action Definition and then select the Processing Type
If you need to use custom logic to influence the result of the PPF action e.g. different information on a label, then you need to define a custom method as shown below. Select the “Create” option. Note: You will need an ABAP developer key to do this.
Create a new BAdi Filter
Name the custom implementation
Provide the implementation short-text and then add a custom filter as shown below.
Activate the implementation.
Go back to the PPF Action by pressing F3 and now select your custom filter.
Save the change
Now you need to create the PPF Condition. This is where giving your PPF Action a unique name instead of copying the standard name will come into play.
Show the technical names and then select the associated Action Profile
Create a new entry as shown below and select your PPF Action
Compare the Schedule Condition and Start Condition of the standard PPF Action you used when creating when creating the custom entry and then maintain the same entries on the custom action as shown below
If you want to be able to manually create the PPF action e.g. via the Warehouse Monitor, then you need to add a 2nd entry as shown below.
Make sure that the 2nd entry as the “Default Settings…” unchecked as shown below. No Schedule or Start Conditions are required in this instance.
You may need to create condition records for the custom PPF Action. Tcode – /SCWM/PRWO6
Specify the maintenance group
To create a new entry, select the field shown below and specify the condition type. Maintain the required entries. Here you will specify the custom action definition and associated form. The result is that the custom action definition will be determined when the maintain conditions are true.
A practical tip to debug the custom method: PPF Actions are called asynchronously to the object that creates them and this makes it difficult to debug. In order to easily debug you should change the processing time of the PPF action to be done using a report. This means that the action is created, but not triggered to execute.
To execute the PPF you need to use T-Code SPPFP
Specify the relevant entries shown below to display the entries.
On execution, Select the relevant entry and then execute. The code should now stop in your custom method if you have added a breakpoint.
REF: https://cloudbook.co.in/blog/sap-ewm-custom-ppf/
