Identifying Relevant Fields

Prerequisites

For checking and for import, the transfer file must be stored on a computer that can be accessed with Remote Function Call (RFC).

You must create a path for the transfer file in the external environment. This path must not have more than 40 characters.
File size is unrestricted. However, for performance reasons, it should not be larger than 10MB.
You must create the transfer file in the correct character standard .

Procedure

Choose your required table assignment:
- Table Assignment: Phrases
- Table Assignment: Sources
- Table Assignment: Specifications
- Table Assignment: Property Tree
- Table Assignment: Report Template
  
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  You can call the individual tables in the SAP system and compare the table fields. To do so, in the SAP menu choose Tools ABAP Workbench Overview Data Browser . Enter the name of the table in the Table Name field. After you have confirmed your entry, the system displays the requested table.
  
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Specify the table fields to which you want to transfer external data.

Note Note

Note the status and type entries for the table fields:

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Status M =	Required entry field
Status K =	Optional entry field
Status C =	The data in the table field is checked against a permitted set of values during import.

The following table fields occur in several tables. These fields are grouped together in the relevant tables under .ADMIN :

“.ADMIN” fields

Table Field	Status	Type	Comment
CRDAT	K	DATS8	Date created
CRNAM	K	CHAR12	Created by
UPDDAT	K	DATS8	Date of last change
UPDNAM	K	CHAR12	Name of the last person to change the data
OWNID	K	CHAR10	Key of data provider

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If the CRDAT , CRNAM , UPDDAT , andUPDNAM fields are not provided with the import, the SAP system enters the current date and importer.

Enter a unique ID and name in the specification transfer file for each data provider. The data provider ID for the transfer file need not correspond to the data provider ID in the SAP system. To assign the correct data provider ID in the SAP system, the SAP system compares the name, city, and country of the data provider in the transfer file with the addresses of the existing data providers in the SAP system, and replaces the imported data provider IDs with the data provider IDs in the SAP system.

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Caution Caution

When importing specifications, there is a risk that phrases are imported that are used as value assignments for characteristics but do not exist in the SAP Basic Data and Tools component. To ensure that you do not lose this data, you can enter these phrase texts as characteristic-dependent user-defined texts for the relevant characteristics in the transfer file. You assign a value to the characteristic itself, for example, with the phrase See user-defined text .

Characteristics to which you want to assign characteristic-dependent user-defined texts must fulfill certain requirements (see User-Defined Texts and Documents ).

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