Starting the Index Construction Program for Documents (FI) (SAP Library

Starting the Index Construction Program for Documents (FI)

Prerequisites

Start the index construction program under the following circumstances:

You accidentally deleted the secondary indexes and the document-based and account-based archive indexes.
You have never constructed the indexes
You want to (re)construct the indexes for other reasons

Procedure

You can start the index construction program from Archive Management by choosing Index then Construct index.

Enter a variant name and choose Maintain.

The Maintain Variant: <report name> <variant name> screen appears. Choose Attributes and enter a description for your variant in the Description field. Save your entries.

You return to the Maintain Variant: <report name> <variant name> screen. Set the required actions in the Actions area and then select the data source in the Data sources area. After making your entries choose Save and then Back.

Enter the start date and spool parameters. To start the index construction choose Execute.

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When indexes are constructed from archives that had not been converted the secondary indexes are translated. They then have the same condition as if they had been part of the local currency changeover.