Adding class to documents - Mass change

Question

Hi all
I want to add a class to all existing documents of a certain document type, is there any tool for doing this?
Like CLMM transaction for changing values.
Have looked at the transaction CL24N but unfortunately it is only possible to paste in 10 new records at a time and there is no option to search for the documents like in CLMM or import from file. Or have I missed something?
Reason for doing this mass change is that we have assigned a class to a document type, now we need to change this class to another one.
Iu2019ve tried to change the class in DC10 to the new class, but then the additional data tab is empty when you display a document of that type in SAPGui (In EasyDMS however all values are visible).
But if we add the new class to all old documents and then deleting the old class everything seems to work OK. Too many documents to do this maneuver one by one, though.
Grateful for any help or ideas.

Answer 1

Hi Daniel,
Why don't you use dependency in this case.
You add new char to old class and use  dependency Precondition .
This will serve the purpose.
This will work like this
Old class  will have following char
Old Char
New Char 1
New Char 2
Now new Char 1 will have Value Yes and No
and New Char 2 will have a values which you want
If you want to use New Char 2 in certain doc types you have to select New Char 1 values as Yes then system will display New Char Val 2 so that user can enter values
Ex:
Old Class
Old Char:
New Char 1   : Yes
New char 2   : "This field is ready for input"
New Char 3  : "This field is ready for input"
New char 4   : "This field is ready for input"
New Char 5  : "This field is ready for input"
you want old values for certain doc types then select  a value "No" (You can make this default) for New char 1 so that user can view only Old Char
Old Class
Old Char:
New Char 1   : No
New char 2   : "This char will be hidden for input"
New Char 3  : "This char will be hidden for input"
New char 4   : "This char will be hidden for input"
New Char 5  : "This char will be hidden for input"
This will reatin all your old char values for existing documents and from dependency you can choose new char values whenever you want
Regards
Abhijit A. pachgade