Field status and field status group

With a field status you decide the status of a specific field on screen. Usually the status can be one of these: hide, display, optional, or required.

Example:

A field status group consist of many field statuses grouped in different areas or groups:

In the field status group defined for an account group you set which are the relevant fields of the G/L accounts assigned to that group. When you change a field status of the group, all its G/L accounts are affected. See the following video for more detail.

In order to define the field status when posting FI documents, you can use:

• A transaction-dependent field status group, assigned to the desired posting keys.
• An account-dependent field status group, assigned to the G/L account master data.

Since both options can be used, a field could have a different status when evaluating each option. The status that prevails is the one with a higher priority (1-Hide, 2-Required, 3-Optional). For instance, having the “Hide” and “Required” statuses in a field will mean that the field will be hidden.

See the following video for more detail:

For an account of a subledger, such as a vendor or a client account, the field status group applied is the one assigned to the G/L reconciliaton account of the subledger account.

The field status groups for postings are assigned to a field status variant, and this variant can be assigned to one or more company codes. Usually there’s only one field status variant assigned to all company codes.

The following topics have been mentioned in this topic and you should consider going over them:

• G/L account.
• Account group.

These are some Fiori apps related to this topic:

• Manage G/L Master Records.

These are some transactions codes to access some of the points related to this topic: