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Procedure documentationTransporting Set Types to Production Systems

 

The system in which you create your set types and attributes depends on your system landscape. Transport functionality is available, enabling you to transport your objects between systems. However, you should consider the following points to avoid errors and data inconsistency:

  • Attributes and set types should be created in the same system.

  • You are advised to create them in the development system and then transport them within your landscape to the quality and production systems.

    You can also create these objects in the quality and production systems, however you must ensure that the users involved have the appropriate authorizations.

Set types are created as local objects and are therefore assigned to the package $TMP. To transport a set type to a production system, the set type needs to be assigned to a transportable package and included in a transport request.

Once a set type has been transported to a production system, any modifications or enhancements have to be transported additionally. For example, you add some values to an attribute definition. You have the following options:

  • Create a workbench transport directly for the domain definition of this attribute.

  • Take one set type where this attribute is used and transport the complete set type.

  • Transport all set types where this attribute is used.

Prerequisites

  • A transportable package exists.

  • A transport request has been created.

  • The transport system has been set up correctly.

Procedure

  1. On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Maintain Set Types and Attributes.

  2. Choose Start of the navigation path Set Types /Attributes Next navigation step Transport Next navigation step Set Type End of the navigation path and enter the ID of the set type to be transported. Then choose Include in Transport Request.

    Note Note

    If you set the Create API Append indicator, it will also be possible to maintain the set type using APIs. The BDoc structure or API structure is extended during this process, and the data included in data exchange and archiving.

    End of the note.

  3. Choose Execute.

  4. In the dialog box that appears, choose Display/Change, specify the package to which you want to assign the set type, and choose Enter.

  5. In the dialog box that appears, specify the transport request and choose Enter.

  6. Release the transport request.

Once the transport request has been released and transported, the set type is transported to the given systems (for example, Start of the navigation path Development System Next navigation step Consolidation System Next navigation step Quality/Test System Next navigation step Production System End of the navigation path).