Customizing for Load from Data Stream 

Purpose

You use this process to make the Customizing settings for the data collection method Load from Data Stream.

Prerequisites

You have made your Customizing settings for the data basis and for the consolidation area that will accommodate the totals data, documents, and/or additional financial data.

The data to be loaded is available in an InfoProvider.

You have created a source data basis and specified it in the data basis.

Process Flow

A. Defining a Task

Define a task for data collection, or use an existing task.

B. Defining a Method

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      1.      To create a method for Load from Data Stream, go to the process view of the workbench, choose Consolidation Functions ® Data Collection ® Load from Data Stream, call up the context menu, and choose Display. Here you can create a method.

      2.      Assign a name and description for the method.

      3.      Specify the data type for the data to be loaded (for example, whether the data reflects documents or additional financial data).

Tab Page "Settings"

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      1.      Specify the RFC destination for the source data (only if the source InfoProvider resides in another system), and specify the InfoProvider.

Both the RFC destination and the InfoProvider need to have been specified in the source data basis.

      2.      Specify the update mode. For more information, see Control of Data Collection Using Update Mode.

      3.      Specify whether the system should consider the debit/credit sign attributes that are defined in Customizing for financial statement items and/or transaction types.

      4.      Specify the input type (cumulative or periodic).

      5.      If you want to use a BAdI implementation for data collection, specify the BAdI filter value.

Tab Page "Mapping"

Define how the fields are mapped. See the section Mapping.

Tab Page "Selection"

Define how data is selected. See the section Selection.

Save the method Load from Data Stream.

C. Assigning the Method

Assign the method Load from Data Stream to a data collection method. See the section Data Collection Method.

If you select documents as the data stream in the data collection method, you also need to specify the document type.

Assign the data collection method to the data collection task.

Result

Execute the method Load from Data Stream by running the corresponding task in the consolidation monitor.

Check the log.