Properties Tree Import (SAP Library - Product Safety (EHS-SAF))

Properties Tree Import

Use

These functions enable you to:

Import a new properties tree into the R/3 System
Modify an existing properties tree

In combination with the Properties Tree Export function, you can compare properties trees in different R/3 Systems.

Features

When importing properties trees, you can use the following functions:

File check

The R/3 System checks to see if the data from the transfer file can be transferred correctly and determines all substance characteristic categories to be changed and created in the R/3 System.

A log is created for checking the file and you use the file to ascertain any errors made.

For all selected substance characteristic categories in the R/3 System, you can display the differences between the properties trees in the source and target systems. The following differences can occur:

The descriptions for the substance characteristic categories are different.
Different classes are assigned to the substance characteristic category.
A class is defined in different ways.
The characteristics in a class are different.
The characteristics are defined in different ways.
The descriptions for the characteristics are different.
The phrase sets assigned to the characteristics are different.
The names for the phrase sets are different.

Control

All selected substance characteristic categories are imported.

You should ensure that:

· No SAP classes are marked

· No classes you created that contain SAP characteristics are marked

SAP characteristics and classes must not be transported using import or export. Otherwise, the original SAP characteristics and classes cannot be overwritten by an updated properties tree during a release upgrade.

You are allowed to transport only the substance characteristic categories you defined yourself.

In addition, you can use parameters to determine which elements of the substance characteristic categories are imported (for example, descriptions for substance characteristic categories, classes, class descriptions, characteristics, and characteristic descriptions).

If a characteristic is newly created in the R/3 System, then all elements of the characteristic that are dependent on other selected elements (descriptions, for example) are imported without being specifically selected.

Data import

The data is transferred in the background using the direct-input procedure. The R/3 System creates an import log for this.

If in the target system	Then
No properties tree exists with the same key,	The properties tree is newly created.
A properties tree exists with the same key,	The structures are matched up. The R/3 System inserts new substance characteristic categories in the appropriate points in the properties tree. Objects that already exist are not deleted as a result of the import.

New characteristics for a substance characteristic category are always appended at the end of the list of characteristics.

The characteristics A and C are assigned to class K. On importing, the characteristics A, B, and C are imported for class K. The sequence of the characteristics is then: A, C, B.

No truncated value lengths of characteristics can be transported using the import. If, for example, the characteristic A already exists in the R/3 System with the length CHAR 30, it is not possible to overwrite this characteristic with the length CHAR 1 using an import in the R/3 System. In this case, an error message will be written in the log. Lengthening values is, however, permitted.

If you reconfigure your R/3 System, you can generate phrase sets for all characteristics of data type CHAR30 in the IMG activity Generate standard phrase sets in Customizing for Product Safety if the phrase sets are not part of the export file.

Activities

Importing Properties Trees