Generating Transport Datasets 

Transport Types

Transporting a User Group

Transporting an InfoSet

Transporting a Query

To generate a transport dataset, choose one of the transport actions Export or Download on the initial screen of the transport tool.

If you want to run a test export first, select the checkbox Test run. The system then determines which queries, InfoSets and user groups would be transported for the selections entered below on the screen and generates a log. It does not generate a transport dataset in the table AQTDB or a file. You should always make use of this checking facility.

The check box labeled Overwriting permitted allows you to make sure that existing objects do not get accidentally overwritten when importing or uploading. If you are doing a test run for an import, then a note will be made in the log if an existing object would get overwritten at any point. If you are not doing a test run and the Overwriting permitted check box is not set, then the import of an object will be terminated if the object already exists in the target system and would get overwritten by the import. An existing object will be overwritten only if the check box has been set. A note will be made in the log that an object has been overwritten in this case too.

If you want the transport to include query variants, i.e. variants defined for the query reports, select the checkbox Transport query variants. The system then transports all the variants of all queries to the transport dataset. Please note that, to transport variants, you must always use the transport actions Export and Import. The actions Download and Upload cannot transport variants. The logs contain details of the variants transported.