Compare and Reconcile Objects 

Use

You can use this function to compare processes or form scenarios using systems or clients. You can also copy the settings that you made in a different system or client for a process, validity period of a process, a form scenario, or a form scenario version, into the current system.

When reconciling, you overwrite the settings that you made in the current system for the object to reconcile, with the settings for the object as they are in the remote system.

Prerequisites

●      You have set up an RFC connection between the current system and the remote system, which you want to use for the comparison and reconciliation.

●      To reconcile, you must be in the change mode of the object that you want to reconcile.

Features

●      You can reconcile the following objects with objects from a remote system:

○       Processes

○       Validity periods of processes

○       Form scenarios

○       Form scenario versions

●      You can compare the following objects with objects from a remote system:

○       Processes

○       Form scenarios

●      You can directly reconcile the object that you are currently processing with a different object in the remote system.

The system overwrites all settings that you made for the current object with the settings for the object from the remote system.

●      You can display a list of all processes or form scenarios existing in the remote system.

●      You can compare all or selected processes or form scenarios from the displayed list.

The system compares the objects from the remote system with the objects from the current system that have the same technical names.

●      You can reconcile all or selected processes or form scenarios from the displayed list.

The system overwrites all settings that you made for the selected object with the settings for the corresponding object from the remote system.

Activities

Reconcile Current Object

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       1.      Open the object you want to reconcile, in change mode.

       2.      Choose Utilities ® Reconcile.

       3.      Specify an RFC connection and the object whose settings you want to copy to the current object, and choose Continue.

The system informs you whether the reconciliation was successful.

       4.      Save the settings copied from the remote system for the current object.

Display List of Objects in Remote System

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       1.      For processes choose Utilities ® Reconcile Processes, or for form scenarios choose Utilities ® Reconcile Form Scenarios.

Alternately, on the initial screen of Design Time for processes and forms, you can choose Design Time ® Reconcile Objects.

       2.      Enter an RFC connection.

       3.      Choose Display Processes from Remote System or Display Form Scenarios from Remote System.

Compare Objects with Objects in Remote System

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       1.      Select the desired objects in the list of objects from the remote system.

       2.      Choose Compare with Remote System.

The system displays the result of the comparison in a dialog box, and sets the appropriate status for the compared objects in the list (for example, Process in Current System and in Remote System Agree).

Reconcile Objects with Objects in Remote System

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       1.      Select the desired objects in the list of objects from the remote system.

       2.      Choose Reconcile (Import from Remote System).

       3.      Confirm the system’s query.

When you confirm the query, the system copies all settings from the remote system for the affected objects, and saves them in the current system. If you have made settings in the current system for these objects, they are overwritten with the settings from the remote system and are deleted.

The system informs you whether the reconciliation was successful.