Property Tree Import (SAP Library - EH&S Environment, Health & Safety)

Property Tree Import

Use

These functions enable you to:

Import a new property tree into the SAP System
Modify an existing property tree

In combination with the Property Tree Export function, you can match up property trees in different SAP Systems.

Features

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

File Check

The SAP System checks to see if the data from the transfer file can be transferred correctly and determines all value assignment types to be changed and created in the SAP System.

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

For all selected value assignment types in the SAP System, you can display the differences between the property trees in the source and target systems. The following differences can occur:

The descriptions for the value assignment types are different.
Different classes are assigned to the value assignment type.
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 value assignment types are imported.

Caution

You should ensure that:

No SAP classes are selected
No classes you created that contain SAP characteristics are selected

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 property tree during a release upgrade.

You are allowed to transport only the value assignment types you defined yourself.

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

Note

If a characteristic is newly created in the SAP 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 SAP System creates an import log for this.

Situation in the Target System

Result

No property tree exists with the same key.

The property tree is created.

A property tree exists with the same key.

The SAP System matches up the structure:

The SAP System inserts new value assignment types in the appropriate points in the property tree.

Objects that already exist are not deleted as a result of the import.

New characteristics for a value assignment type are always appended at the end of the list of characteristics.

Example

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.

Note

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

If you reconfigure your SAP 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 Property Trees

Situation in the Target System	Result
No property tree exists with the same key.	The property tree is created.
A property tree exists with the same key.	The SAP System matches up the structure: The SAP System inserts new value assignment types in the appropriate points in the property tree. Objects that already exist are not deleted as a result of the import.