3017822 - Kanji automatically convert to Katakana

When you are uploading file in DWB, the Kanji characters are getting translated to Katakana after upload.

SAP Business ByDesign

• Go to Data Workbench -> Import -> Complete Business Objects
• Select Account and then upload your file where the Account Name was in Kanji characters
• Once the file is uploaded, Check the field "Name" field in the UI. It will be translated to Katakana.

This happens when the metadata was added by the excel application beause of some formulas written in the Excel. In dataworkbench tool we accept only string data , no formulas are allowed , So, even if the data was copied from another excel file the formatting could have come from the other cell. So we recommend pasting only the values as text.

In the Excel Sheet, Manually select the name cell which was causing the issue and then the text to columns functionality to set the Column data format to text .

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