Skip to main content

Quick Tip! How to Copy Process Chains

Everybody who creates process chains comes to a point at which they want to copy a process chain. There are many reasons: because copying makes it quicker, you want to make only small changes from an existing chain to another, or you want to test a process chain and modify it to look at different scenarios without having to destroy the original.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Step by Step guide on BADI with Filter implementation

Step 1 à Before implementing filter objects to a BADI. We need to deactivate all the implementation for that BADI. Go to SE18 (BADI definition) and from there navigate to all BADI implementation to view all the active implementations for that BADI Select the BADI implementations listed on the screen and deactivate the implementation. Once done, return back to the initial screen of SE18 and proceed with next step. Step 2 à go to SE18 – BADI Definition screen and change the existing BADI definition that we created in the earlier tutorial.   Select the FILTER –DEPENDENT check box under the TYPE section. This will open up the FILTER TYPE field for inputs. And do an F1 on the FILTER TYPE field. Click on the F4 on the FILTER TYPE field name and enter some search criteria to find a relevant data element. And click on the continue button   Select the data element from the list to set up your filter and hit enter. Click on the save butto...

Create Data Source in SAP

Data Sources are extraction structure. Data Sources are used to extract data from various source system. In the below steps, we will see how to create a data source using a SAP table VBAK. 1) Execute transaction RSO2 2) Enter data source name to be created 3) Press Create 4) Enter description of the data source 5) Enter the name of table or view on which data source has to be created. Data Source can also be created using a View, Info set or a Function Module. 6) Save the data source 7) Execute RSO2 again and click Change 8) Select VBELN field as selection 9) Save the Data Source 11) To check whether data is getting extracted, execute transaction RSA3 12) Enter the name of data source as shown below and press 'Extraction' 13) An information message will appear stating no. of records fetched 14) Additional button 'Display list' will appear, press button 15) Select one of the data packet and double click to get records fetched 16) Data Source is ready to be used!

Operational Data Store (ODS) using SAP BW 3.5

Operational Data Store (ODS) using SAP BW 3.5 ODS consists of 'Key fields' and 'Data fields'. Data fields can also contain characteristics e.g. customer, product etc.. ODS is not used for multi-dimensional analysis like Infocube . The data from ODS can be updated with delta update into a Infocube. The data in ODS is stored in a transparent table. There is no fact or dimensional table created for ODS. Following are the steps to create an ODS: 1) Execute transaction RSA1, select the InfoArea under which you would like to create ODS. Right click the InfoArea, select 'Create ODS Object' 2) Enter ODS Object 'Name' and 'Description', press 'Create' 3) Check the box against 'BEx Reporting' to enable ODS for BEx reporting, press 'InfoObject Catalog' button to get the InfoObjects which you would like to add to ODS 4) Select the characteristics (InfoObjects) which you would like to add as 'Key fields' or 'Data fields...