Archive Selection
When executing certain archiving actions, it is necessary to select individual archive files or entire archive sessions and make them available for the relevant action. You do this using Archive Selection, which you access from the initial screen of the relevant action.
Archive selection is relevant for the following actions:
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Delete
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Read
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Build Index
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Reload
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Postprocessing
Depending on the action, there are various criteria that define whether archiving sessions and archive files are displayed in the archive selection
Criterion 1:
Archive File Status
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Action |
Criterion |
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Delete |
Archive file has the status Archived or Stored (if the sequence "Store before deletion" has been selected in Customizing) |
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Read |
Archive file has the status Archived or Deleted or Saved. |
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Build Index |
Archive file has the status Deleted and the file is in the file system |
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Reload |
Archive file is in file system and the session has the corresponding status (see criterion 5) |
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Postprocessing |
All archive files have status Deleted |
Criterion 2:
The archive file must contain at least one data object. If you have performed an archiving session and maintained the variants so that no data objects were archived, the archive file is automatically deleted and no longer offered for selection.
Criterion 3:
If a file is not accessible in the file system, the file is not offered for selection. A file is only offered for read if all the files in a session are accessible.
While checking the accessibility of a file, the system performs a read access for each file. This check process can take a long time if a large number of files are involved. To optimize this process the access check can be activated or deactivated according to archive files in the file system and archive files in an optical archive in archiving object-specific Customizing.
Criterion 4:
In the case of client-dependent archiving objects, the system only offers you sessions for the current client.
Criterion 5:
An archiving session can only be reloaded if it has the status Complete or Archiving session is reloaded.
You can select complete archive sessions or specific archive files from the archive selection window, which you can access by choosing Archive Selection, from the initial screen of the archiving action.