Mass Upload of Documents(Solution Manager 7.2 >SP05)

[prakhar_saxena]

After a long wait or more than a decade(personally), we finally have the most awaited feature in document management capability in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 version in SPS 06 onwards.

Yes, it is now possible to have the mass upload of documents in SAP Solution Manager including their attribute maintenance.

We recently upgraded couple of customer on Solution Manager 7.2 SPS06 or SPS07 and finally seen this new functionality working out of box. Ofcourse, it was earlier working in Build Add-on etc. but it was with few customers only.

Above is now available to all and it is really a much awaited features boosting the usage of documentation in Solution Documentation scenario of Solution Manager.

However, if you have upgraded your solution manager from 7.1 version to latest Solution Manager 7.2 SPS06 or SPS07 then it will be hidden be default in SOLDOC.

You should perform below simple step to enable it.

Step 1 - Goto solution documentation tile from fiori launchpad or enter soldoc transaction code.

Choose the ribbon or global menu and select SHOW DROP AREA.



Step 2 : We should be able to see the button or area in the lower portion of screen DROP DOCUMENTS HERE as below.



Hence, we can now drag and drop several documents which can be of type pdf/document/excel files etc. from our local desktop/laptop to specific location in solution documentation.

In addition, I would like to also share that I have seen sometime a below error i.e. SERVICE CANNOT BE REACHED.



It is a bit difficult to troubleshoot as it didn't provide much information here but basically we need to activate one SICF service.

Kindly visit SICF transaction and activate below service i.e. SMUD_DROP_DOCS.



Once it is activated you will be able to see the button for mass upload as below.



Really an exciting feature and will share some information regarding the same latter. It is really saving huge efforts for maintaining or uploading several documents at the same time.

Feel free to share your opinion about the same.

 

 

[Tim_Steuer]

 

Nice article! Thanks for sharing. There's additional information in the Help Portal.

[prakhar_saxena]

Hi tim.steuer

Thank you.

I plan to write more on this topic soon with some more practical infos which I am bound to faced 🙂

Thanks

Prakhar

[manjesh84]

Hi Prakhar,

Thanks for this blog for the mass upload of documents to SOLMAN 7.2. Since our SOLMAN 7.2 SPS is on 03, do we get this feature? Hope not according to your blog, right!

And, as we are in the process of migrating the documents, is there a standard procedure to do the same between the below systems? As of now, we've the only option to manually export/download the documents from the T-code SOLAR_PROJECT_ADMIN -> Double Click on TMASTER01 Project -> then from Menu, Goto -> Project -> Configuration -> Click on a single row/document -> then click on export and import/upload it to new target SOLMAN 7.2 system.

SAP EHP 1 for SAP Solution Manager 7.0 -> SAP SOLUTION MANAGER 7.2 SPS 03

Please advise if we could achieve this task in an efficient way, as we are scared of the stupendous time required to download/upload the entire documents constituting of more than 20k one by one.

 

Thanks & Regards,

Manjesh Mohan.

[prakhar_saxena]

Hi Manjesh,

Yes, it is only in new version which I have shared already.

for older release the pretty standard way is to update or upgrade your system but I understand it is more difficult way for you as it is SM 7.0

You can try KW document download(search it) option to get all the documents first step and then next steps is to upload in SM 7.2. But, if you are not on SM 7.2 SP06 or later then you can use excel option as per below note.

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2509832

hope this helps

Thanks

Prakhar

[manjesh84]

Thanks for your advise, Prakhar.

But the documents downloaded are named with the OBJ ID (alphanumeric) it seems, not with the actual name and there is no folder structure created in order to identify from which folder/subfolder the document holds so as to upload/replicate the same to the folder/subfolder structure in the new SOLMAN. It seems that there is a great flaw in this area that in order to do this task efficiently, we've the only option to do it fully manually. At least if we could get the raw physical files (.doc/.xls/etc) from the OS level/server then it would be ease to some good extent which is also not possible!

[prakhar_saxena]

Hi Manjesh,

Yes, all this pain is from more than 10 years which I have mentioend and nothing new here. This is also the reason where many customer have 3rd party tools or develop reports to extrat it from content server of solman which is the source for all documentation.

There are many more ways to do it however as they are not standard(apart from custom development) and achieving the same but I can't share with you but yes there are very few ways of managing it. Wish you good luck further.

Thanks

Prakhar

[former_member595183]

Hi Prakhar,

 

Currently we are adding Folders , scenarios , processes and process steps manually into the solution documentation. Is there a way to add the details in excel and import the excel sheet so that the folder structure would be created easily?

Please share any video links or template documents of the process along with your answers if possible

[prakhar_saxena]

Hello vijeshnair24

Yes, it is possible

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2509832

Check above sap note for the same.

 

thanks

Prakhar

 

[former_member595183]

Hi Prakhar,

Thanks for your reply.

1.)I have tested this out, but I feel its only possible for the first time.

If you already have some folders, and you want to add further folders, does this template still work.

2.) Also If I create the entire structure in development,  can I move the whole content to Maintenance or Production?

 

Thanks

Vijesh

[prakhar_saxena]

Hi Vijesh,

You can update or create a new doument when you do drag or drop if they have same name then you get this option.

but above I didn't talk about creating folder so don't confused it has nothing to do structure here.

If you want to move structure of folders from one system to another use the export of branches option.

thanks

Prakhar

[former_member412784]

Hi Prakhar,

 

Thanks for sharing this article, it is very nice.

We are currently working with Solman 7.2 SPS 05 and we have 2 requirements with SOLDOC.

1. Mass download of test documents from SOLDOC.


2. An email alert or notification if any change is made in existing test document in SOLDOC.

 

Please advice if it is feasible, if so then how can we achieve it.

Thank You.

Pragya

 

[GeorgKo]

Hello Pragya,

 

your questions are very interesting for me. Are your requirements possible with the solution of this article.

 

Thank you

Best Regards

Georg

[former_member244043]

Hi Prakhar,

Thanks for your blog. I've below question.

When uploading the document through “Check-in” option, it will ask for document upload, where we can select the file from the local drive and proceed.

A pop-up opens up, where we have to change the status of the document from “Draft” to “Under Review” and click okay to initiate signature process with required person/group name.

While doing this mass upload, can we initiate the signature process?

Regards,

Vasanth S

[former_member86768]

Hello Vijesh,

we also tried the sap note but didn't serve the purpose. we have automated Solution Documentation using automated script and able to reuse them as we go. Since we also had a requirement to create/maintain executable's for SAP Fiori(11000+entries) it would be hard to create them manually.

so we automated the solution documentation and able to run and update them as required. It is very handy.

Regards, Venky

[rezaejersbo]

Hi Prakhar,

 

Thanks for very good article, this help os to opload mass dokument to Soldoc.

We are currently working with Solman 7.2 SPS 09.

We need to do Mass download of new documents from SOLDOC to the local PC.

The upolad is working fine, but how can we do, mass download from SOLDOC?

Please advice os, if so then how can we achieve it.

Thank again.

Br

Reza

[DyankoDyankov]

Hi Prakhar,

 

thank you for this good article. I (like many others on this blog) am looking for a way to mass download documents from SolMan 7.2. Is there already some solution in place? I couldn't find anything so far.

 

Thank you in advance.

BR,

Dyanko

[former_member597622]

Hi Prakhar,

thanks for sharing this blogpost! We're currently looking for a way to mass download documents from soldoc as well as archiving documents we've downloaded. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks so much!
Maeva

[former_member452782]

Dear Prakhar Saxena,

There is any restriction for Document size to uploading in SOLDOC, i am facing the issue while uploading the 11MB size Document. after drag and drop the  Document  i didn't get any error message and Document also not uploaded. Please suggest the to resolve this issue.

i want learn Test Suite, whats the correct link to learn, i was got some document but i didnt the concept itself, Please suggest the best link Configuration and Functional learning .

Thank you in Advance.

Regrads,

Saranraj Vasanthakumar

 

 

 

 

 

[former_member688491]

Thanks for the article. I am experiencing some trouble though. when trying to upload 2 or more documents, only 1 document appears. Any advice for a solution?

thanks in advance for your help.

[filippos_sempepos]

Hello vengi123,

We our using SM 7.2 SP 10 and we would like to populate a Solution with scenarios, business processes and process steps kept in an excel sheet.

Could you please advise how to do so. I had a look at note 2509832 but I'm not sure I understood the format it requires.

Could we upload them in a easier way? Does Focus Build provide any similar functionality?

Thanks in advance,

Filippos

[former_member828062]

Hi Team,

 

Can you please help me in the Tables / Configuration details on the Path.

For Eg :



Thanks and Regards,

Venkat.