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
- In your SOURCE system create a transport in the Transport Management Work Center.
- Upload this transport to your TARGET tenant.
- 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