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Procedure documentation Copying a Rule Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

We recommend that you create a new rule by copying an existing rule. The attributes, source text, and documentation of the original rule are copied. The original schema and copied schema are identical apart from the administration information .

Note

If changes made in your customizing client are not written automatically to a transport, note that you must include the copied rule in a transport request.

Prerequisites

You are in the initial screen of the rule editor.

Procedure

  1. In the Rule field, enter the name of the required rule.
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You access the Copy dialog box. The rule that you have entered is displayed in the From and To fields.
  1. In the To field, enter the name of the rule to which you want to copy.

Note

If you enter a changed name for the copied rule, see the notes on the assignment of names for standard and customer rules.
  1. Choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

The status line now contains a system message stating the results of the copy procedure.

Result

A new rule now exists. The attributes, source text, and documentation of this rule are identical to the template.

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