User assignments in STS customizing

[Former Member]

Hello everybody,

We have a BPS application that uses STS. We use a huge hierarchy with a lot of users assigned to the nodes and leaves.

Business users want now to change the hierarchy, but would like to backup all previous customizing in case the new hierarchy is finally not approved by management.

Is there any way to backup or copy all (headers, events, links and user assignments) STS customization so that we can backup it later ?

We've been through UPS_STS_COPY_CUSTOMIZING function but it does not work for users. We checked bps_tc transaction and it seems that nodes-users are stored in an XML raw structure somewhere.

We're stucked so far. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks a lot,

Raphael

P.S : We're running BPS 3.1

[former_member93896]

Hi Raphael,

you might want to consider using the STS BADI (se19) to dynamically derive the user names. Then you probably won't have to copy the hierarchy so often.

Regards,

Marc

SAP NetWeaver RIG

[Former Member]

Hello Marc,

Thanks for the input. I had a look at CL_UPS_STS_CUSTOMIZING class and there are xml upload and download methods.

So the idea would be using these methods to export to the local disk all STS customizing, the import the XML file if users want to restore the old settings. Is that correct ?

If yes, please could you tell us where to find an example of code to implement it ? We're quite new to object coding.

Thanks a lot in advance,

Cheers,

Raphael.