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3229945 - Activation Failed Error When Using Transport Management to Upload Reports

Symptom

When uploading a report or other analytical objects with Transport Management you see the errors below:

Failed to activate transport object type Analytical Content.

Activation failed.

Environment

  •  SAP Cloud For Customer

Reproducing the Issue

  1. In your SOURCE system create a transport in the Transport Management Work Center.
  2. Upload this transport to your TARGET tenant.
  3. You will see errors such as the below:

Failed to activate transport object type Analytical Content.

Activation failed.

Cause

In your source tenant, you created the data source / report which is based on a PDI data source, this object is on a different patch version.

To illustrate this on an example:

Source system XYZ is on Version 11

Target System ABC is on Version 10

Resolution

Please ensure that both systems are on the same version.

See Also

For more details on namespaces and PDI solution lifecycle management, please see the following blog:

https://blogs.sap.com/2015/08/27/sap-cloud-applications-studio-deployment-landscape-basics/

The section "PHASE 4: Life-cycle for patching and bug fixing" describes how to ensure that the same namespace is used in both systems.

Please also see the below:

2514737 - Upload of Report Fails: Data Type of Data Source Field Is Not Available

Keywords

patch, transport management, report, data source, PDI, solution, activation failed, Failed to activate transport object type Analytical Content. , KBA , AP-RC-ANA , C4C, ByD, Travel: Analytics Tools & Frameworks , How To

Product

SAP Cloud for Customer add-ins all versions ; SAP Cloud for Customer core applications all versions