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3049057 - The error "Select at least one data area" is raised when archiving Business Partners (for object CA_BUPA ) in SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Symptom

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The error "Select at least one data area" is raised when archiving Business Partners (for object CA_BUPA ) in SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Reproducing the Issue

  1. In "Manage Archiving Variants", create variant entering the BP to be archived.
  2. Schedule archiving.
  3. The scheduling job fails and in the "Monitoring Archiving Jobs" the error "Select at least one data area" is raised.

Cause

A data area needs to be selected.

Resolution

  1. When scheduling the archiving variant the General Data field needs to be set as 'X'
  2. See screenshot

Keywords

S4_PC, S4_1C, S/4HANA Cloud, Select at least one data area, CA_BUPA, Manage Archiving Variants, Monitor Archiving Jobs, BP, Business Partner. , KBA , AP-MD-BP , Business Partner , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions ; SAP S/4HANA Cloud all versions