Hierarchy
SAP_FIN (Software Component) SAP_FIN⤷
EC-CS (Application Component) Consolidation⤷
FC00_UC (Package) Cons: General consolidation (cannot be assign.to FC01-FC09)
Basic Data
| Data Element | FC_MASK |
| Short Description | Use masking |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | CHAR1_X | |
| Data Type | CHAR | Character String |
| Length | 1 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 1 | |
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Further Characteristics
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| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | Masking |
| Medium | 15 | Use masking |
| Long | 20 | Use masking |
| Heading | 3 | Msk |
Documentation
Definition
Determines whether or not masking is to be used when writing a transport request.
Use
The transport deletes identical entries that already exist in the target system. You can use masking to delete entire ranges of entries and to replace these ranges with the transported settings. Masking also improves the clarity of the transport request.
Select the flag if the overwriting of all settings in the target system, which are affected by the selection, poses no problem.
Keep in mind that the format of your entries in the selection screen also affects the capability of using the masking feature: If you specify ranges and also make exceptions for individual values, your entry cannot be interpreted for masking. Then, the selection is taken for determining the individual entries.
Procedure
If you do not want to use masking on a general basis, but instead only want to use masking in certain cases, the safest way to proceed is to run the transport program separately for each of the two types of transports.
Examples
- You want to transport all of the items that start with '0000' in consolidation chart of accounts '01'. To do this, in the general selection criteria you specify cons chart '01', object group 'FS items' to be transported, and you enter '0000*' for the selection of FS items. If the masking flag is selected, the transport request uses the entry mask as is. The result in the target system is that all of the items in cons chart 01 that begin with '0000' are deleted and replaced with the transported FS items.
- You want to transport consolidation units E1 and E2 of dimension AA. To do this, in the general selection criteria you specify dimension 'AA', the object group 'consolidation units' to be transported, and you enter 'E*' for the selection of consolidation units. You do the latter because dimension AA has no other consolidation units that also begin with the letter 'E'. If you select the masking flag, the transport request uses the 'E*' mask to write the data whereever it is feasible to do so. However, in this case, additional consolidation units (for example, E3, E4, and so on) in the target system could be affected. You can avoid misinterpretations like this by specifying each value, 'E1' and 'E2', instead of using wild cards like 'E*'.
- In the previous example, you also select "Tax Rates" to transport the version- and period-based tax rate assignments of the consolidation units as well. If you select the masking flag, the program transports the tax rate assignments of the selected consolidation units for each existing combination of dimension and version across the board, according to the general selection criteria. If you do NOT select the masking flag, each individual assignment is transported separately.
Dependencies
The flag does not affect the transport of objects that are selected by means of the option Also transport assigned objects. In this case, masking would still be used for the assignments, but not for the assigned objects.
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 19991201 |
| SAP Release Created in |
