Audit Rule/Validation of Business Purpose Field

[AASM]

Hi, 

I have a question regarding audit rule that validates data in Business Purpose field. Do you know if it is it possible to create the audit rule to include certain words in Business Purpose field?

For example, when IO# 12345 is selected, certain words such as “ABCDE” or “012345” should be included in Business Purpose field. So the wordings can be ‘XXABCDEXX’ since “ABCDE” is included. Is this kind of setting possible?

Thank you!

Anna

[rohanpatil]

Hi @AASM,

Business Purpose is a text field and IO is likely a part of a list. Custom Audit rules cannot compare values of 2 data types. You could build a validation audit rule by loading all IO values in the validation table. However, validation audit rules are not easy if you have not worked with them before. so best to get support from Concur on it.

Hope this helps.

[AASM]

Thanks Rohan! 🙂

[KevinD · Accepted solution]

@AASM I believe the only way you could do this is if you created your own custom field and named it something similar to Business Purpose. However, instead of a text field, you could make it a drop down list and provide all the possible business purposes for your employees to choose from. That way you could use a validation rule.

As @rohanpatil mentioned, Validation Audit Rules are tricky, so best to consult with SAP Concur Support.

[AASM]

Thanks Kevin! 🙂