Distributing Inspection Setup Data Using Change Documents

Use

You use this procedure to distribute inspection setup data automatically, using change documents.

Prerequisites

  • When the inspection setup is created, changed, or deleted, change documents must be written.

    Note Note

    If you use the mass processing function for the inspection setup and want to distribute the data you have changed, you must have set the Create change documents indicator in the mass processing for the inspection setup function.

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  • You have made all relevant settings in Customizing.

Procedure

  1. In the source system, choose Start of the navigation path Tools Next navigation step ALE Next navigation step ALE Administration Next navigation step Services Next navigation step Change Pointers Next navigation step Evaluate End of the navigation path.

  2. Enter the message type MATQM and choose Execute.

    The system selects the data that has been changed and writes it to one or more IDocs.

    Note Note

    One IDoc is created for each material and plant. This means that an IDoc can contain several data segments, if there are several inspection types for the material-plant combination. If there are several materials, then several IDocs are created.

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  3. In the target system, choose Start of the navigation path Tools Next navigation step ALE Next navigation step ALE Administration Next navigation step Services Next navigation step Manually Process IDocs End of the navigation path.

  4. From the list, select the IDocs to be transferred and choose Process.

    Note Note

    The number of IDocs in the source and target system are not the same.

    You can automate processing. This means that the posting of the IDocs occurs immediately and does not have to be triggered manually.

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Result

  • After running various checks, the system writes the inspection setup to the application tables in the target system.

  • If an error occurs during one of the checks, this is documented in the ALE tool. If errors occur, processing is canceled and the data is not saved in the target system.

  • In the target system, a message list is created in ALE services that shows the status of the posted IDocs (and of those that have not been posted because they contained errors), as well as the short text for the error message (if required).

See also:

Distributing ALE Master Data