Entering content frameProcedure documentation Creating Archive Files - G/L Account Master Data (FI) Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

  1. Choose General Ledger ® Periodic processing ® Archiving ® G/L accounts then Archive.

    2. The Archive Administration: Create Archive Files screen appears.

  2. Enter a variant name and choose Maintain.
  3. You can limit the number of master records that are archived using the following selection criteria:

The following master data can be archived either together or separately: Master data information for all chart of accounts and company code-specific master data information
  1. Having entered the selection criteria above, you can now maintain the following program parameters where necessary:

If you start the archiving program in test mode, archiving is only simulated. The system neither writes data to archive files nor deletes data from the database.

The detail log records information on each archived object. For more information, see Logs (FI).
  1. Enter an archive description.

A short text added to help identify the archiving session within archive administration.
  1. Choose Back.

    2. The system asks you whether you want to save your values. To save your data choose Yes.

    The ABAP: Save Variant Attributes screen appears, and you enter a description of your variant in the Description field.

  2. Save the variant by choosing Save. To return to the Archive Administration: Create Archive Files screen choose Back.
  3. Maintain the Start date and the Spool parameters for the archiving session.
  4. Once you have maintained the above selection criteria, start date, and spool parameters, you can execute the archiving session by choosing Execute.

To display the status of the jobs you created, choose Goto ® Job overview.

For more information on maintaining variants, see the SAP Library under Getting Started.

 

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