Data Transfer to Multiple Components

Use

You can use report RCATSTAL ( Time Sheet: Transfer to Target Components ) to transfer time sheet data records to the following target components in one step:

  • Human Resources (HR)

  • Controlling (CO)

  • Project System (PS)

  • Plant Maintenance/Customer Service (PM/CS)

Currently, you cannot use the report to transfer data to Materials Management (MM) and cProjects .

To access the report choose Start of the navigation path Time Sheet Next navigation step Transfer Next navigation step All Components End of the navigation path .

Integration

Report RCATSTAL combines the functions of the data transfer reports for Human Resources, Controlling, Project System, and Plant Maintenance/Customer Service . Any selection options that apply to certain target components only are indicated accordingly.

If you have two separate systems installed, for Human Resources (HR) on the one hand and for Logistics and Accounting on the other, you must run the report for transferring data to HR in the HR system. You can then transfer data to Controlling , Project System , and Plant Maintenance / Customer Service in one step in the other system.

Prerequisites

To be able to run the report, you must

  • Have made all the component-specific Customizing settings in the target components

  • Be authorized to execute the relevant HR, CO, PM/CS, and PS data transfer reports

Features

Selection

Report RCATSTAL enables you to select data according to your employees' organizational assignment. You can select data for all employees assigned to a specific cost center, for example. This option is not available if you use the separate data transfer reports for the individual target components.

The table below lists the other selection criteria for report RCATSTAL. In each case, the criteria are only valid for specific components.

Option

Meaning

Valid for

Order

Maintenance or service order

PM/CS

Network

Network number

PS

Document number

Document number

CO, PM/CS, PS

Posting date

The transferred records are posted with the date entered.

CO, PM/CS, PS

Posting date for cancellation

The cancelled records are posted with the date entered.

PM/CS, PS

Number of tasks

For optimum performance, you can distribute the data you want to transfer over several tasks. You specify how many tasks in this field.

PM/CS, PS

Number of lock attempts

If another user is processing an order or network when you run the report, the order or network is locked. You can enter a number of lock attempts for the report. The report then attempts to perform the transfer as many times as you have specified.

PM/CS, PS

Log

You obtain a detailed list of the transfers made to the relevant components.

HR, PM/CS, PS

Test run

The data is read from the interface tables but not transferred.

HR, PM/CS, PS

Repeat transfer

If errors occurred during transfer, because a personnel number was locked, for example, you can transfer the records again.

HR

Transfer without dates

You want to just enter services, without this affecting the scheduling of the network.

PS

Ignore warnings

We recommend this option if you have scheduled the report as a background job. It means that data is still posted even if it causes warnings to be issued during transfer. The report displays any relevant warning messages in the transfer log. If necessary, you must postprocess the data.

If you do not select this option, no more data is posted from the time the warning is issued.

CO

Note Note

For more detailed information on these options, refer to the relevant field help.

End of the note.
Output

The report transfers the data for each component separately and consecutively.

If you execute the report online, the system displays how many records were posted in a target component once the transfer to that component is complete. If you have selected the relevant option, the system issues a detailed transfer log. Choose Back to confirm the display or log and proceed with the transfer to the next target component.

Normally you will run the report as a background job however. Then you do not need to confirm each transfer. If you selected the Log option for your background processing, the system generates a spool list for each component.

If errors occurred during transfer, you must postprocess them, either from the Time Sheet or in the relevant target component. For an overview of the errors that occurred, you must have selected the Log option.

Caution Caution

If you postprocess errors in the relevant target component and not in the Time Sheet , the time sheet data is no longer consistent with the data in the target component.

End of the caution.

Activities

  1. Call the report by choosing Start of the navigation path Time sheet Next navigation step Transfer Next navigation step All components End of the navigation path .

  2. Enter the period and organizational criteria for the data you want to transfer.

  3. Specify the target components to which you want to transfer the data.

  4. Select additional selection options as required.

  5. Choose Execute .