SAP FICO Interview Question on Field status group and control

What is field status group, what does it control?

Field Status Variant contains different field status groups. Field status groups controls the field status of line items where to be displayed, optional, suppressed, required.

We can control in 3 places: ---

a) Field status variant (OBC4):---it controls line items during document posting.

b) Account groups (OBD4, OBD3, OBD2):-- It controls fields during master record Posting [GL master (OBD4), vendor master (OBD3), customer master (OBD2)]

c) Posting keys(OB41):---it controls line items during document posting.

Note: -- both posting keys and field status variant controls the line items during document posting based on Suppressed, required and optional priority.

How do you control field status of GL master records and from where do you control?

Field status of GL a/c master record is controlled by Account group (on the top of left side in OBD4 we will have field status through which we control GL a/c master fields).And OBC3 is used to control the fields of transaction posting

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