Nonperiodic Deletion

Use

You use this function to delete transaction data in the consolidation system.

For more information, see Deletion – Periodic and Nonperiodic .

Integration

After making your Customizing settings for nonperiodic deletion in the Consolidation Workbench, you execute the function in the Consolidation Workbench, as well.

Differences to Periodic Deletion

The Status Management in the Consolidation Monitor function is not available for nonperiodic deletion because you execute nonperiodic deletion in the Consolidation Workbench (in contrast to periodic deletion, which you execute in the Consolidation Monitor).

Nonperiodic deletion supports simple selections only, whereas periodic deletion supports complex selections , as well.

Prerequisites

The data stream you want to delete has been defined in the data basis.

The data you want to delete is consistent. To eliminate inconsistencies, see Analysis and Repair of Data Streams .

Features

The Consolidation Workbench offers a different selection screen for deletions for each data stream used in a given consolidation area. You can save your selection screen settings as a variant, and load the saved variant as desired.

You can execute the function in test mode and log your changes.

Activities

  1. In the process view of the Consolidation Workbench, go to Start of the navigation path Consolidation Functions Next navigation step Other Functions Next navigation step Delete End of the navigation path , and select the data stream you want to delete.

  2. Specify the target selection on the selection screen.

  3. Choose Execute .

The system performs the deletion.

Example

See the example in section Deletion – Periodic and Nonperiodic .