Export: Process 

Purpose

This process describes the export of sources, phrases, substances, properties trees and report templates.

See the Purpose section under: Interfaces.

Prerequisites

Process flow

  1. After you have selected the objects to be exported, check the export parameters.
  2. When importing substances, phrases and sources, you can enter an exchange profile for which the export parameters have already been defined.

    You define exchange profiles in the IMG activity Specify exchange profiles in Customizing for Product Safety.

  3. You start export, and the R/3 System runs it in the background.

 

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Procedure

 

Export of Sources, Phrases and Substances

 

Exporting Sources

Exporting phrases

Exporting Substances

 

Properties Tree Export

Report Template Export

 

Exporting Properties Trees

Exporting Report Templates

Result

  1. You can check the export job you have started by choosing Data transfer ® Check export ® <Export object> from the Product Safety screen.
  2. Place the cursor on your job, and choose Goto ® Job log. If necessary, you can display the long text for a message by choosing Goto ® Long text.

  3. If export is successful, the data is created in transfer format in the transfer directory on the application server.
  4. The export format of the data correspond to the syntax required by the import program.

  5. You can download this file on your PC from the Product Safety screen under Data transfer ® Download file.

In the same way, you can copy the file to your application server by choosing Data transfer ® Upload file.