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Function documentationCompare and Reconcile Objects

 

You can use this function to compare processes or form scenarios using systems or clients. You can also copy the settings that you made in a different system or client for a process, validity period of a process, form scenario, or form scenario version to the current system.

Caution Caution

When reconciling, you overwrite the settings that you made in the current system for the object you want to reconcile with the settings for the object in the remote system.

End of the caution.

Prerequisites

  • You have set up an RFC connection between the current system and the remote system, which you can use for comparison and reconciliation.

  • To reconcile, you must be in the change mode of the object that you want to reconcile.

Features

  • You can reconcile the following objects with objects from a remote system:

    • Processes

    • Validity periods of processes

    • Form scenarios

    • Form scenario versions

  • You can compare the following objects with objects from a remote system:

    • Processes

    • Form scenarios

  • You can directly reconcile the object that you are currently processing with a different object in the remote system. The system overwrites all settings that you made for the current object with the settings for the object from the remote system.

  • You can display a list of all processes or form scenarios existing in the remote system.

  • You can compare all or selected processes or form scenarios from the displayed list. The system compares the objects from the remote system with the objects from the current system that have the same technical names.

  • You can reconcile all or selected processes or form scenarios from the displayed list. The system overwrites all settings that you made for the selected object with the settings for the corresponding object from the remote system.

Activities

Reconcile Current Object

  1. Open the object you want to reconcile in editing mode.

    Note that you must copy the form scenario first and then the process. A form scenario is required to start a process, so the form scenario must be copied first. If a process involves multiple form scenarios, all of them have to be copied.

  2. Choose Utilities -> Reconcile.

  3. Specify an RFC connection and the object whose settings you want to copy to the current object, and choose Continue.

    The system informs you whether the reconciliation was successful.

  4. Save the settings copied from the remote system for the current object.

Note Note

  • The form scenario or process must contain a description before reconciliation. If not, the technical name of the process or form scenario is copied to the description in the target system.

  • Since descriptions can exist in more than one language, the form scenario or process is reconciled based on the logon language in the target system.

  • Any links should already exist in the target system. The links will be copied but will only work if they exist in the Customizing.

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Display List of Objects in Remote System

  1. For processes, choose Utilities -> Reconcile Processes, or for form scenarios choose Utilities -> Reconcile Form Scenarios.

    Note Note

    Alternatively, on the initial screen of the Customizing activity Design Time for Processes and Forms, you can choose Design Time -> Reconcile Objects.

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  2. Enter an RFC connection.

  3. Choose Display Processes from Remote System or Display Form Scenarios from Remote System.

Compare Objects with Objects in Remote System

  1. Select the required objects from the list of objects in the remote system.

  2. Choose Compare with Remote System.

    The system displays the results of the comparison in a dialog box, and sets the appropriate status for the compared objects in the list (for example, Process in Current System and in Remote System Agree).

Reconcile Objects with Objects in Remote System

  1. Select the required objects from the list of objects in the remote system.

  2. Choose Reconcile (Import from Remote System).

  3. Confirm the system query.

    Caution Caution

    • When you confirm the query, the system copies all settings from the remote system for the affected objects, and saves them in the current system. If you have made settings in the current system for these objects, they are overwritten with the settings from the remote system and are deleted.

    • If the process you reconcile has a form scenario that does not exist in the target system, the form scenario is automatically reconciled.

    End of the caution.

    The system informs you whether the reconciliation was successful.