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Introduction To BAPI For Material Upload
Introduction To BAPI For Material Upload
Introduction To BAPI For Material Upload
This document details the usage of BAPI in LSMW. We have used the example of migration of the purchase
order data into SAP.
Pre-requisites:
It is assumed that the reader of this article has the minimum knowledge required on the Business Object, BAPI,
Message Types and IDoc Types.
Step-by-Step Procedure:
Method: CreateFromData
Lets have a look at the BAPI first, before proceeding to the LSMW:
1. Go to Transaction BAPI
1. Go to Transaction LSMW.
2. Enter the Project, Subproject and Object information and click on CREATE.
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5. IDoc Inbound Processing screen appears. Enter the required details as shown below:
6. Click on Activate IDoc Inbound Processing.
11. Select the radio button Business Object Method and enter the following details:
Method: CreateFromData
Hit ENTER
12. Save and click on BACK button. Following information message is displayed.
13. Now select step 2 Maintain Source Structures and click Execute.
14. In this step, we need to maintain the source structure. In our example, lets consider the example of a file
with 2 structures Head and Item data as shown below:
Click on Create and name the source structure as HEADERDATA. Now select HEADERDATA and click on
Create again to create the child structure. Following popup appears:
Select Lower Level and click on Continue. Enter the Item data structure name.
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Similarly do the same for the structure E1BPEKKOA, E1BPEKPOC and E1BPPEKET.
Click Save and return to main screen.
19. Select the step Maintain Field Mapping and Conversion Rules and click on execute. Maintain the Field
Mapping as seen below:
20. Select step 7 Maintain Source Files and provide the link for the test file created. (Create a test file with the
same structure as defined earlier).
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Assign the file provided to the source structure. Here the same file is provided for both the structures.
Save and return to the main screen.
Click on Execute.
23. Select the step Display read data and click on execute.
Click on the structure name to get the field level values.
27. Now select the step Start IDoc Processing on the main screen.
28. Return to main screen and click on Create IDoc overview. Here the data record and status records of the
IDoc could be viewed: