Import and Export

Purpose

The SAP component Basic Data and Tools supports you with creating a first database as well as with data import and data export in productive systems. This means you can exchange data between the following system constellations:

  • Two SAP systems

  • An SAP system and an external system

You can import and export the following data:

  • Sources

  • Phrases

  • Specifications (including dangerous goods data)

  • Property trees

  • Report templates

  • Reports ( inbound documents (IBD) )

    Example Example

    You can export phrases in the original language, translate them in an external system, and then import them into the SAP system.

    You use exchange profiles to define the transfer parameters used to control data exchange.

    In specification export you can use phrase references in the legally valid phrase library to convert your current phrase library that you use for value assignment, so that the exported value assignments correspond to the legal requirements of the EU, for example.

    In specification import, in contrast, the SAP system enables you to import passive phrases used as value assignments to the active phrase library.

    End of the example.
Import
Export

Process Flow

  1. For the import, you copy the transfer file that you have generated yourself or by exporting the data, to a directory on your PC.

  2. You upload the transfer file from your PC directory to the application server.

  3. You import the transfer file from the application server to the SAP Basic Data and Tools component.

  4. You first select the respective data that you want to export from the SAP component Basic Data and Tools for the export and then you start the export to the application server from the component to a file.

  5. You download the exchange file from the application server to your PC directory.