Archiving Sales Activities (SD-CAS-SA)

Archiving object SD_VBKA for archiving sales activities.

Prerequisites

Before using the archiving object for the first time, you should check Application Customizing.

Structure

Tables

When you use the archiving object SD_VBKA, data is archived from the following tables:

Table	Table name
NAST	Message Status
SADR	Address Management: Company Data
VBFA	Sales Document Flow
VBKA	Sales Activities
VBPA	Sales Document: Partner
VBUK	Sales Document: Header Status and Administrative Data
VBUV	Sales Document: Incompletion Log

Programs

The following archiving programs are delivered with SD_VBKA:

Program	Function
SDVBKAWR	Write
SDVBKADL	Delete
SDVBKARL	Reload

ILM-Based Information for the Archiving Object

You can use this archiving object with the SD_VBKA ILM object as part of SAP Information Lifecycle Management. In order to do so, you must activate the associated business function Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) (transaction SFW5). The system then also displays the ILM Actions frame. You can use these actions to archive documents with the retention periods defined in the Information Retention Manager. You can also delete data that fulfills the prerequisites.

For more information about the Relevance business functions for SAP ILM, see Activating SAP ILM.
For more information about ILM Enhancements in data archiving, see ILM-Specific Enhancements in Archive Administration.

The following fields for SD_VBKA are defined in the ILM policy and are visible when processing ILM policies (transaction IRMPOL):

Available Time Bases
End of Year (END_OF_YEAR)
Available Condition Fields
- Date of Last Change (AEDAT)
- Date on Which Record Was Created (ERDAT)
- Sales Activity Type for Sales Support (KTAAR)
- Transaction Group (TRVOG)
- Sales Office (VKBUR)
- Sales Organization (VKORG)
- Distribution Channel (VTWEG)
Available Policy Categories
RTP: Retention Rules

For more information, see SAP Information Lifecycle Management.

Call

To call sales activity archiving, go to the Sales Support Screen Start of the navigation path Environment Next navigation step Archive Documents. End of the navigation path .

Alternatively, you can also call archive administration under Start of the navigation path Tools Next navigation step Administration Administration Archiving End of the navigation path and enter object name SD_VBKA.

Integration

Sales activities can be archived independently of other SD documents.

More Information

Sales Activities in the DRB (SD-CAS-SA)

Variant Settings for Archiving (SD-CAS-SA)

Variant Settings for Reloading (SD-CAS-SA)

For more information about the archiving object, see the application documentation for data archiving under Start of the navigation path Data Archiving Next navigation step Data Archiving in the ABAP Application System Data Archiving with Archive Development Kit (ADK) Archiving Object End of the navigation path .