Archive Selection  

Use

Provides context-specific access to archive files for performing archiving activities.

Prerequisites

Archive selection appears at the following actions:

Depending on the action, there are four different criteria for whether archiving sessions and archive files are displayed in the archive selection:

Criterion 1:

Archive file status

Action

Criterion

Delete

Archive file status
Archived or
Stored (if sequence "Store before deletion" has been selected in Customizing)

Read

Archive file status Archived
or
Deleted
or
Saved

Construct index

Archive file has the status Deleted and the file is in the file system

Reload

Archive file is in file system and the session has the corresponding status (see criterion 5)

Postprocessing

All archive files have status Deleted

Criterion 2:

The archive file must contain at least one data object. If you have performed an archiving session and maintained the variants so that no data objects were archived, the archive file is automatically deleted and no longer offered for selection.

Criterion 3:

If a file is not accessible in the file system, the file is not offered for selection. A file can only be read if all the files in a session are accessible.

While checking the accessibility of a file, the system performs a read access for each file. This check process can take a long time if there are a lot of files. To optimize this process the access check can be de-/activated according to archive files in file system and archive files in an optical archive in archiving object-specific Customizing.

Criterion 4:

For client-dependent archiving objects only the sessions for the current client are offered.

Criterion 5

An archiving session can only be reloaded if it has the status Complete or Archiving session is reloaded.

For more details, refer to Selecting Archive Files.