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3440316 - Material Missing From An Exported File Of Mass Data Maintenance

Symptom

User notices that some materials are missing in file after exporting all materials data from mass data maintenance.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Mass data Maintenance work center.
  2. Go to export materials link.
  3. Export all materials.
  4. Download the csv file.
  5. Here some materials are missing from csv file.

Cause

The system is functioning as designed, however this behavior deviates from the standard.

User can contact respective PDI partner to explore the possibility of addressing this through a PDI solution.

Resolution

As a work around, below is recommended:
1. Search based on a combination of material and language in which the data is maintained specifically. 
2. User must search without a language filter to export and remove the duplicate entries from the file.
3. Also, user can use Data extraction functionality https://me.sap.com/notes/2473303

See Also

 2473303 - How to Enable and Use the Data Extraction Tool in SAP Business ByDesign

Keywords

 Mass Data Maintenance, exported file ; csv file ; materials ; export all materials ; missing materials ; data extraction; material missing ; export; , KBA , AP-PRD-MAT , Material , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions