Data Migration (Intricate Problem)

[Former Member]

Hi All,

We are planning to migrate data from non-SAP system to ES 7.0 . We have extracted standard templates that SAP provides for this process but we have two concrens regarding these templates.

1. Template does not not have a field for doc link collection. for-example there is a requirement to link one MA to many MAs and we have tried adding fields of DOC link colection but it seems system is not recognizing the fields.

So what is best way of linking one MA to other during Migration process?

2. Standard template offers to add three collaborators COLLABORATOR_1,2,3 but if we add COLLABORATOR_4, again system does not recognize this field.

we have a requirement to add quite a few collaborators during Migration. What could be the solution for this.

Thanks inAdvance!

Regards,

[Former Member]

Hi,

1. For Document links import, there is a separate sheet/csv template for importing them. Check in the enterprise workbook you should have a sheet for this, else you can download a template from the setup>import wizard.

Columns: DISPLAY_NAME, DOCUMENT_DESCRIPTION, LINK_DIRECTION_TYPE, LINK_DEFINITION_TYPE, LINK_CLASSID, INTERNAL_NAME,SYSTEM_DEFINED,__UPGRADE_

e.g.

Previous Master Agreement,,Past,DaVinciBusinessDocument,contracts.Contract,FCI-CONTRACT PREVIOUS,TRUE,

Master Agreement in Project,,Project,DaVinciBusinessDocument,contracts.Contract,FCI-CONTRACT PROJECT,TRUE,

2. Regarding collaborators not sure if we have such an option. You may want to consider using user groups & document security templates if the collaborators are going to be same for documents of same type.. As you would know document security template would enable you to add default collaborators on create & the granularity of control is based on doctype

Thanks, Baski

[Former Member]

Hi Baski

Thanks for your reply,

But if i am not wrong, this csv is used to maintain the document link definitions itself which is part of your system configuration.

My requirement is for Data Migration,

in which we need to link Master agreement to each other through document links collection which is present at the end of the document. Sorry, if my question was not clear ealier.

Regards,

Saurabh

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thanks for pointing out.. Regarding point 1 I was wrong. I was assuming we have a generic importer to handle document links collection import common across all biz docs, as we have for extension collecitons. After a close look, it seems we don't have doclink import support.

here is one you can try. You can create a script for the import event, and you can get access to the document link collection and you can create document links and you can add them..

Psuedo code: in Import event script

//get colln

AssocColln docLinkcolln = getDocumentLinkList()

//create an object

DocumentLinkBo boDocLink = docLinkcolln.create()

//get values from import field

value = importField.getField("customLink1");

//set documen link fields

docLink.setXX(value);

docLink.setLinkDefinitionObjRef(...)

docLinkcolln.add(boDocLink );

This way you can access all the collections during import.. hope it helps.