Search models are organized into search software components, which, among other things, serve as a transport vehicle. These software components have to be transported between systems to deliver new or corrected SAP models to customers, or to transfer customer-specific models from development systems to test or productive systems.
SAP delivers new and enhanced search models with product releases, enhancement packages (EHP), or support package stacks (SPS). The new model versions are available immediately after an upgrade or update, and also in customer-specific models that include an SAP model.
SAP provides urgent corrections to models in SAP Notes, which you can import using the Note Assistant (transaction SNOTE). When you open the administration cockpit for the first time after importing a note, a background job starts, which updates the models. A corresponding message is displayed in the Search and Analytics Modeler (not in the administration cockpit).
After an upgrade, update, or correction by SAP Note, take a look in version management for modeling (
). If software components are marked in red, open a customer message on the support component of the transported model. You can find the component name in step 1 of modeling under .There is a transport connection in modeling for transporting customer-specific models between development, test, and productive systems. If you make changes during modeling and save them, you have to create or select a transport request for the software component in question. These are standard SAP transport requests, which you can manage and send in the Transport Organizer (transaction SE09).
Note the following when transporting search software components:
After the transport to the target system, take a look at the log in the Transport Organizer (select request and choose Transport Logs). If errors are displayed under and you cannot correct them, open a customer message on the support component of the transported model. You can find the component name in step 1 of modeling under .