Setting Up the Interface for Export with the Toolbox (SAP Library

Setting Up the Interface for Export with the Toolbox

Purpose

You use this process to

Set up the interface for exporting with the Toolbox
Export the selected data to the third-party system using the Interface Toolbox.

Prerequisites

You use the following application components in your enterprise:

Personnel Administration (PA-PA)

Time Management (PT)

Payroll (PY)

Process flow

The process is split into several steps:

You use the Toolbox to create an interface format. In this step, you select the data and convert the data to be exported.

The interface format includes the following functions:

Create objects
Delete objects
Data definition for cluster objects
Table entries
Convert field objects
Restrictions for field objects
Attributes

You determine which data is only to be exported if it has changed.

You need only perform this step if only changed data is to be exported.

You use the change validation functions to determine the data for the export. These functions include:

Create objects
Delimit objects
Validating single fields
Key fields
Relations
Wage types

You use the data entered in the interface format and in change validation to generate the export program.

You use the functions in the file layout to set up the required file format for the data to be exported. These functions include:

Create
Delete
Move
Insert
Attributes
Blocks
Structures
Fields

You use the specifications for the file layout to generate the conversion program.

Result

You have set up an interface for the export. You can start the generated export program to run the data export and convert the data to the required file format.