Customizing for Conversions 

Use

Settings have to be made in the system for other applications as well as in Customizing for Conversions. Use the Implementation Guide (IMG) for instructions of the individual activities where you enter the required data.

Activities

  1. Decide whether you want to check in files to a secure area that you want to convert into the SAP System. Secure storage areas are storage systems controlled by the Knowledge Provider such as vault, archive, and the SAP database.

By deciding to check in and store the files you make it possible for the files to be accessed from any workstation. A disadvantage of this is that the data must be transported often. Note the following:

Checking an Original Application File into a Secure Storage Area

Note

Yes

In Customizing for Conversions you must not set the following indicators:

  • General local files
  • Local files

No
  • Set up a file server so that all users and the conversion server can access the files under the same path name.

Under WinNT a file c:\users\test.doc is created and put in a document info record of the SAP Systems as an original application file.

Problem
The conversion server that is running on another computer cannot access this file.

Solution
Allow other computers to access c:\users.
Connect c:\users to the local computer as well as the conversion server with a logical drive, for example x:
Process the file locally under the name x:\test.doc.
Crate an original application file in the document info record of the SAP System using this name.
  • Enter in Customizing of Conversion (conversion specification) the following data:
    • Indicator General local files
    • Storage category, where the converted original application files are checked in and stored
  1. Maintain the conversion data.

See: Maintain Customizing for Conversions
  1. Assign SAP authorizations for users.

Each user that starts a conversion (implicitly) needs the following authorizations:

Authorization Object

Use

C_DRAW_TCD

Check in and check out of original application files

C_STUE_BER

Process bills of material (only necessary when converting assemblies)

S_BTCH_ADM

S_BTCH_JOB

Batch administrator

Operations for jobs in background processing

Call RFC modules

  
  1. Verify that a DEFAULT entry for the frontend computer is defined in Document Management.
    This setting ins in Customizing of Document Management; under General Data ® Define     data carrier ® Data carrier type "Defined server, frontends" ® Identify frontend computer.