Activating Metadata 

Before you can work with Drag&Relate, you must activate the metadata in the logical system. The screen field and the Drag&Relate object link are connected by data elements. Active data elements are data elements that have an assignment to an object type. The system generates object links for all screen fields that reference one of these active data elements. During the activation of Drag&Relate supertypes, the system checks the function module assigned to determine the actual business object type.

The system uses a time stamp to check if an object is active or inactive. If the last activated time is after the last saved time, the object is active; if the last saved time is after the last activated time, the object is inactive.

When you display the metadata for an object, the active version appears. As soon as you change the object, its status reverts to inactive. The last active version continues to be used for any Drag&Relate operations. The active version is the SAP delivery version if the SAP import is more recent than the last customer version maintained.

You can transport modified objects automatically. This makes sense if you transport the metadata from a development system to a test system or from a test system to a production system.

A new import overwrites locally changed objects. Alternatively you can configure the system so that both the import version and the local version are stored in parallel. You can first check the objects and then activate them manually if needed. In the Drag&Relate Customizing Check area, choose Settings. In the Settings for Interactive Maintenance of Drag&Relate Data dialog box, set the Transport mode to M for No Automatic Transport.

The dependent table SPRTL2 is not transported. The system generates this table when you activate the metadata. You can activate either the SAP delivery version, tables SPRTL0 and SPRTL1, or the modified customer version, tables SPRTL0C and SPRTL1C.

You can activate objects simultaneously. When you choose Mass Activator a list of all objects in the system appears with their status. You can select the objects to be activated from this list and then activate them at one time.

Objects created in the customer version are only visible in the SAP delivery version if they are activated from the customer version to the SAPdelivery version.

You cannot maintain the SAP delivery version unless you are in Transport mode S for Transport of SAP tables.