Data Management Process Chains 
Planning and Consolidation provides example packages that consist of process chains. The example package defines the user interface that passes information to the process chain.
Other than the ImportUsingFTP process chain (see below), you do not need to modify process chains before you can add them as packages and run them. See Adding and Modifying Packages. Alternately, you can use an example process chain as the starting point for a custom package.
The following table describes the example packages. These packages are available to all application sets.
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Package Name |
Description |
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Append |
This process chain imports a flat file in append mode. See Import Transaction Data from a File. |
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Clear |
This process chain sets the values to zero of any range of transactional data from the specified application. Comments are deleted as well. See Clearing Application Data |
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Clear_Journals |
This process chain prompts you to select categories, time dimensions, and currency to clear Journals data. See Clear Journals |
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ClearComments |
This process chain clears comments. See Clear Comments. |
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Copy |
This process chain copies transactional data from a source to a destination application based on your selections. See Copying Application Data. |
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Default_Formulas |
This process chain executes default formulas stored in the default.xls file. See Run Default Logic. |
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Export_Journal |
This process chain prompts you for the name of the export journal file and exports the corresponding Journals data. See Export Journals to File on File Service. |
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Export_MD_To_Appl |
This process chain exports master data to a file stored on an application server. See Export Master Data to a File on the Application Server. |
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Export_MD_To_BADI |
This process chain exports master data using a BAdI. This can be used to call custom implementations to retract master data to any SAP system based on ABAP. See Retracting Master Data and Transaction Data. |
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Export_MD_To_File |
This process chain exports master data to a file stored on the file servicer. See Export Master Data to a File Stored in File Service. |
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Export_TD_To_Appl |
This process chain exports transactional data to a file stored on an application server. See Export Transaction Data to a File on the Application Server. |
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Export_TD_To_BADI |
This process chain exports transactional data using a BAdI. This can be used to call custom implementations to retract data to any SAP system based on ABAP. See Retracting Master Data and Transaction Data. |
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Export_TD_To_File |
This process chain exports transactional data to a file stored on the file service. See Export Transaction Data to a File Stored in File Service. |
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ICData (Intercompany Reconciliation) |
This process chain prompts you for entities, categories, currencies, and time dimensions and processes Intercompany booking for the user, application set, application, and selection according to the logic defined in icdata.lgf. See Process Intercompany Reconciliations. |
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Import |
This process chain imports transaction data from a flat file in overwrite mode. See Import Transaction Data from a File. |
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Import_A_Send_EMail |
This process chain imports a flat file and send the result to a specific user. See Import and Send E-Mail. |
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Import_Append |
This process chain imports transactional data from a flat file by clearing the data beforehand using the master data range of the source. See Import Transaction Data from a File. |
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Import_Descript |
This process chain imports dimension member description records into a dimension from a flat file. See Import Master Data Descriptions from a File. |
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Import_IOBJ_Hier |
This process chain imports a hierarchy defined in a BW InfoObject in the underlying SAP NetWeaver BW system. It prompts for the InfoObject and additional selection criteria. See Import Hierarchies from an SAP BW InfoObject. |
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Import_IOBJ_Master |
This process chain imports master data and its descriptions defined from an InfoObject in the underlying SAP NetWeaver BW system. See Import Hierarchies from an SAP BW InfoObject. |
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Import_Master |
This process chain imports master data and its properties from a flat file. See Import Master Data from a File. |
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Import_Using_FTP |
This process chain allows you to import an ASCII file to download from an FTP site into the current application. You can modify the server name within the package. After you modify the server name, you can run this package at any time. See Import File Using FTP |
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Load_Infoprovider |
This process chain loads data from an SAP NetWeaver BW InfoProvider (EDW or BPC) defined in the underlying SAP NetWeaver system into a Planning and Consolidation application. See Import Transaction Data from an Information Provider Example |
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Move |
This process chain moves any selected data within an application. It prompts for source and destination data selections for all dimensions. The destination application records are cleared before the source records are moved. The source application records are cleared after they are moved to the destination. See Moving Application Data. |
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Opening_Balances |
This process chain prompts you for entities, categories, currencies, and time dimensions, and calculates opening balances for the user, application set, application, and selection, according to the logic defined in consolidation.lgf. See Run Legal Consolidation. |
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Restore_Journals |
This process chain restores Journals data from an output file. See Import Journals from File on File Service |
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Trigger_BW_Chain |
This process chain triggers and waits for an SAP NetWeaver BW process chain. See Run BW Process Chain. |
To add sample packages to the Data Manager, choose Complete the Add Package dialog box, click Add, then save it.