BCS: How to copy between versions

[Former Member]

Hi,

Is there a way I can copy consolidated data from one version to another. For eg. for Februaray Forecast I want to copy January's actual numbers consolidated into the February Forecast version and perform consolidations only from February to December.

I tried to use the standard copy versions but it seems as if just copies the Reported Financial Data + data upto posting level 12.

Which basically means that I have to copy the data over from Actual version for January to Forecast version and perform the consolidation for January and then from February to December.

This is i)redundant and ii) error prone.

It also becomes worse as we go thru the different months.. for eg. for December forecast I would have to copy the data from January to November from Actual to Forecast version and perform consolidations on that and then perform consolidation for December.

Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.

thx

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I don't think that you'll be able to copy fully consolidated data (posting level 30) to reported data (level 00).

Moreover, as you noticed, the COPY method doesn't copy all levels:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sem40bw/helpdata/en/31/0a9940ccd42a54e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

Maybe there is a workaround. But, it's somewhat illogical.

Best regards,

Eugene

[Former Member]

I wonder what will happen if I use BPS functions to do the copy and not use the BCS copy functions. Not sure what it'll do.

[Former Member]

I'm not sure either.

Try.

You'll have to do it in the planning area built on totals cube. And guess, this manipulation will not be seen in the cons monitor.