Transport Building Units (SAP Library

Transport Building Units

Use

You can transport building units with their dependent tables using the RNUTRBE0 program. For this purpose, you can select an existing transport request or create a new one.

Caution

Do not run this program until you are familiar with the basic conditions governing its use, how it functions and its possible consequences.

Contact your consultant or SAP Consulting if necessary.

SAP does not accept liability for any damage resulting from the use of this program.

Prerequisites

Ensure that no inconsistencies arise when transporting building units to another client or another system.

Caution

The system does not perform consistency checks during the transport operation.

Inconsistencies can arise for the following reasons:

Since master data is based on Customizing data, you should always transport the Customizing data first. Always use automatic recording of Customizing changes.

In the target system, you may have already maintained building units that have the following characteristics:

The building units do not exist in this form in the source system
The building units have a different identification key in the source system
The building units were created in a different order in the source system

The order in which the building units are created can lead to inconsistencies since building units management essentially works with internal assignment and as a result two building units with identical attributes can have different address numbers in the database.

If you transport organizational units (OUs) without transporting the building units, the assignment of OUs to building units can differ.

The building units are transported to the target system with the respective release status they have in the source system. In other words, if a building unit is not released in the source system and is transported, it is also not released in the target system.. Consequently, you should release the building units in the source system prior to executing the transport. You could then run the release program in test mode in the target system to check the result of the transport.

Features

Selection Screen

You can further restrict the building unit data to be transported by using the following selection criteria on the program selection screen:

Building unit identification key
Date created
Date of last change

Note

The selection criteria are linked by an AND operator. Thus if you enter an interval for building unit creation and change, the transport will include those building units that were created and changed within the specified time frame.

If, however, you want to select all of the building units that were created or changed within a given period, you must run the program twice: once specifying the creation interval and a second time specifying the change interval. This could lead to entries appearing more than once in the transport request, but this is of no consequence.

The following data is included in the transport request:

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Building units flagged for deletion

This ensures that the flag is passed on to the target system.

Moreover, the following entries are included in the transport request if the key of a building units appears directly in one of the dependent tables:

The entries for the following that belong to the building units selected

– The building hierarchy

– The planning characteristics

The facility characteristics

The assignment to organizational units
The doors

Note Note

The identifier table is not included in the transport. You should set up the identifiers again in the target system.

Specifications for Program Execution

You can execute the program for transporting building units in test mode or live mode.

If you run the program in test mode, the system selects the building units to be transported and checks whether they would be successfully included in the transport request in live mode. However, the objects to be transported are not actually included in the transport request.

To run the program in test mode, select Test mode.

Even if you have selected Test mode, you must select or create a transport request. There is no test mode for creating a transport request.

If you run the program in live mode, the system selects the building units to be transported.

To run the program in live mode, deselect Test mode.

Activities

See Transporting Building Units