Understanding Legal Document Types and Relationships

You set up legal document types to specify how the system handles taxes for a legal document, whether the system must print a document on one page, how many copies to print, and so on. You use the Legal Document Types program (P7400002) to set up legal document types for tax and export invoices.

When you set up a legal document type, you assign a legal document type group from UDC table 74/DG. The legal document type group specifies the type of legal document, such as an invoice. The system stores the legal document types in the Legal Document Types table (F7400002).

After you set up legal document types, you set up relationships between the legal document types and internal document types (UDC table 00/DT) for a legal company by using the Legal Doc. Types Relationship program (P7400003). You also specify whether the legal company is registered for value-added tax (VAT) by selecting a value from UDC table 74/VC.

The system stores the relationships in the Legal Document Types / Document Types Relationship table (F7400003).