Displaying and Printing Messages

Use

This procedure describes how you print out message records for agency documents, so that you can send them to your business partner in the form of a letter, for example.

There are two ways of printing out messages:

• Printing from a list (mass processing)
• Printing from the document

You can also display the printout on the screen.

Prerequisites

Message control records (NAST records) must exist for the agency documents for which you want to print out messages. Print output is selected as the transmission medium and Send with application own transaction is selected as the time.

The NAST records for agency documents are automatically created when (for example) the document is released. For this, the necessary settings must be maintained in Customizing, and condition records must be created. For further information see:

Functional Prerequisites for Message Determination

Creating Condition Records

Procedure

Printing from a list (mass processing)

1. Choose
Agency Business and in the menu of the document category for which you want to create messages, choose Messages ® Create.

This takes you to the screen for mass selection of NAST records for agency documents of this category.

You can restrict the selection by entering parameters such as:

• Message type
• Transmission medium
• Document number

2. Choose Execute.

The system displays a list of all NAST records that have not b