Create a product catalog from flat fiile

Hello All,
I have a requirement to create a product catalog from a flat file. Basic requirement is to add products under product catalog. Further requirement can be extended to add views and add images to product catalog.
I want to know steps or function modules which will be used in order to achieve basic requirement first and then extended requirement.
Any sample example explaining the same will be more useful.
Thanks in advance
Madhura

By uploading images to a Product Catalog, the program below will also add the item to the catalog area specified.
SE38 - Run Program COM_PCAT_MASS_DOC_IMPORT
It has it's own Program Information to explain how it works.
Here's the first portion of the that information:
Title
Mass Import of Multimedia Documents for Product Catalogs
Purpose
This report enables you to automatically import multimedia documents that are already available in a file system and assign these documents to product catalog items. The items are identified using a product number. An item is created if a corresponding one is not available.
A simple text file, which can be created using the normal spreadsheet programs or simple text editors, is used as a basis for the import.
We have used this in the past, but it has some performance issues, so experiment to be sure you don't try to upload too many images at once...it can bog down after a few batches and begin crawling.

Similar Messages

Create the Product Catalog from Flat file

Hi,
We have a requirement to create the Product catalog (CRM) from flat file data. We have the required data like Product catalog ID, description, sub areas and products are present in the Exel file. Now we need to create product catalog automatically using the report. Can u give me any pointers on what FM and BAdis to be callled in this report?.
Thanks and Regards,
S Reddy

Link:[Create product basic Data|http://esoadocu.sap.com/socoview(bD1lbiZjPTAwMSZkPW1pbg==)/render.asp?packageid=DDC84252E3AEF0F1AA5A001A64D3F460&id=8C145DB8CF3A11DC2B8D000F20FCB6A9]

How to create a product catalog in crm(by the end user of the system)?

how can we an end user create a product catalog?
what is the diff b/n prod cat and prod?
we download the prod from r/3.
how we get the prod cat done in crm for the customers and consumers and how it is done?
thank you,

hi
first of all we need to look at what is catalog management before proceding with product and product catalog.
You use this business scenario to create a centralized product catalog that contains product descriptions, multimedia objects, pricing, and associated literature. The catalog enables quick and easy customer access to timely and personalized product information, structured in such a way that most meets your customers needs.
Product catalogs are implemented in sales processes and are of particular importance in CRM Web Channel for presenting your products in the Web shop.
difference between the product and product catalog
this is not the thing that product and product catalog are completely different entity.
Product catalog :   A grouping together of products from your product master data, in a structured hierarchy.
You use product catalogs to group together products to present them in the Web shop, Interaction Center, or in other forms of media, for example printed format or CD-ROM.
You can create various catalogs for your products in the product master and use them according to a validity date. For example, you could use certain products for the summer season, and other products for the winter season.
You can also tailor your product catalog to meet other needs by creating catalog variants. For example, you can create a catalog in English with the prices displayed in US Dollars.
so by above definition it is very much clear that products are actually assign to the catalog,i will give you an analogy that museum is a kind of catalog and you add different pictures to the museum,in the same way you add product to the product catalog according to the acatlog variant.
Now how you assign product to product catalog
Product Assignment
You assign products manually or automatically to a catalog area, depending on the catalog type. The product ID, product description, and status of all products is displayed, as is the information as to whether the item contains accessories or if it is a configurable product.
Prerequisites
You have created products in your product master in SAP CRM under Accounts and Products
Process
You select a catalog area in your product catalog, and edit the item list by assigning products to the area.
Manual Assignment
You can assign products manually on an individual basis or by copying a catalog area. You tend to choose manual product assignment for marketing-oriented catalogs that are subjected to editorial controls.
      Individual assignment
      In this case you select the catalog area in which the product should be assigned, manually search for the product in the product master, and assign it to the area.
      Copying items from catalog areas
      You select an area or subarea from another catalog and copy it to your new catalog. The system copies all products from the copied area to the new catalog, as long as they belong to the distribution chain assigned to the target catalog variant. From these products, you can then manually determine which products from the copied area you want to keep and which items you wish to delete.
The following is true for manually assigned products:
      You can activate or deactivate items on an individual basis.
      You can edit the list of accessories for manually assigned products. The system determines which accessories are maintained for the product in the product master and displays them in the item area of the catalog. You select which accessories should be displayed for the product in the catalog and activate them.
      Manually assigned products can be included or removed from catalog views on an individual basis.
Automatic Assignment
You can assign products automatically to a catalog by transferring product hierarchies from your product master to the catalog areas. The categories, items, attributes, and documents contained in the product hierarchy are copied to the new catalog.
You use automatic product assignment mainly for functional catalogs, where products can be copied with very few changes, from the product categories of the product master. It enables a standardized characterization of your products in the catalog.
The following is true for products assigned to the catalog using product hierarchy transfer:
      Product categories which make up the hierarchies become catalog areas in the catalog.
      Product categories in the product hierarchy must be assigned to the distribution chain to which the target catalog variant is assigned. Otherwise the category is not transferred. The same applies to the items, texts, and documents assigned to the category.
      Items are always active and cannot be individually activated or deactivated.
      Accessories maintained for transferred product in the product master are automatically included and displayed in the catalog.
      Transferred items cannot be individually included in catalog views or removed from them. Instead all items of the hierarchy are always contained in the view.
      Lists of characteristics for transferred categories and items can be automatically created when transferring product hierarchies. The transferred values are included in the item overview of the product catalog.
how to create a product catalog
just have a look at this link
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/1c/12b2dc57d644d19ea3a5c4156f904f/frameset.htm
your query regarding the products you have uploaded from the R3,now as above i said how you maintain and create the product catalog ,you just assign the products uploaded from the R3 to the product cataloag created in CRM.
more detail info you can see in these links
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/91/be9642e5ef0731e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/46/27f09d25da5a68e10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/46/037716cfc604a9e10000000a114a6b/frameset.htm
if you read carefuly what i have said,it is pretty easy to implement ,you will see it yourself
guess it will help you
do revert back in case of any doubt
best regards
ashish

Inputs requried to create purchase order report from flat file

inputs requried to create purchase order report from flat file

At a guess, I'd say purchase order data.
If you don't give us a clue what you are actually trying to do we can't really help you too much.
Do you want to call a BAPI? Do a BDC? Use an IDOC? Or just generally muck up the system by doing inserts into the purchasing tables?
No doubt if you tell us, you'll get lots and lots of suggestions.
Gareth.

How to create a inbound IDOC from flat file in Application server

HI All
Our requirement is to create the Inbound idocs from a flat file from application server with in R/3
Could any body please let me know the steps required for this.
Thanks
Malli

1. Read the file using OPEN DATASET and read and fill up the segment info and fill the EDIDC header data
and then call function
CALL FUNCTION 'INBOUND_IDOC_PROCESS'
    TABLES
      IDOC_CONTROL       = i_edidc
      IDOC_DATA          = i_edid4.
a®

Product catalog from mdm to crm isa

HI MDM GURUS,
COULD ANYONE PLEASE TELL ME THE STEPS TO REPLICATE PRODUCT CATALOGS DIRECTLY FROM MDM TO ISA (INTERNET SALES APPLICATION)
PRIYA

Hello,
I wish the answer was simple and I get all the 10 points. But, I have lot more to add than just giving a report program name.
Usually the CRM E-Commerce accesses the MDM product catalog as an external catalog. It is not customary to export the Catalog content from SRM-MDM to CRM-ISA. Instead the MDM catalog is Web Enabled for use as an external catalog by CRM-ISA. In the SRM system, the report program
/CCM/PE_START_REG_PUBLICATION
can be used to publish the catalog. Usually, this is scheduled as a background job to run periodically to publish the catalog.
The E-Commerce (CRM-ISA) has Open Catalog Interface (OCI) hooks available to do this. But this needs to be configured in the XCM to access such external catalogs.
Please read the contents in this link for a overview idea of [External Catalog Integration (via OCI)|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm50/helpdata/en/2f/86653fac7ab21ae10000000a114084/content.htm]
Also, start from [Service Market Place - SRM|http://service.sap.com/srm] and goto SRM-MDM Catalog to know more about the catalog and see the Export process for other possibilities.
Easwar Ram
http://www.parxlns.com

Replicating Products/Catalog from SRM to MDM

I am implimenting SRM and MDM on 7.1 and SRM-MDM Catalog 3.0
I wanted to replicate catalog data from SRM. As we know each catalog record in MDM contains Product, Supplier, Info record data. I am not sure if we have to map all these in MDM or It will be mapped by SAP delivered content for replication.
I am using BBP_CCM_TRANSFER transaction in SRM to transfer data to MDM. In the selection screen I am using 'Category Hierarchy', Category ID and Language fields. I did unchek/check Force Intial Transport and P_debug. There was not much difference.
However I am getting following info messages, but unable to see any data in MDM
16.06.2010 09:27:41: Initial transfer for catalog SRM_EXTRACTED_CTLG
16.06.2010 09:27:42: Determine category TELEPHONE (5 products)
16.06.2010 09:27:42: Start of catalog transfer for 1
16.06.2010 09:27:42: catalog transfer ended
I am now stuck here. Can any one share details of the replication process and steps involved.

Hi Sudha,
Please explain your business scenario. What data you want to replicate from SRM to MDM. We can replicate Suppliers, Contracts and Product Master from SRM to MDM through XI. Make sure you hae configured XI settings for that. You have to download the pre-delivered XI content from SAP Markeplace. Please check Note # 1177779 & 1177780 regarding that.
We can use following reports in SRM to replicate following data in MDM
BBP_CCM_Transfer_Catalog-----Product master
ROS_SUPPLIER_SEND_TO_CATALOG-----Supplier data
SRMMDM_CTR_Transfer----Contract data from SRM
In your case, you are running BBP_CCM_TRANSFER. Please check the SXMB_MONI t-code to monitor the XML messages whether XML files are processing correctly or getting stuck.
Thanks,
Anshuk Saxena

Creating mails with attachments from flat text files

Hello XI community-
we need to send emails containing attachments via the email adapter. The input comes from a flat ascii file.
The source file contains the message body, receiver and one or more lines that have to be converted into one or more (text) attachments.
As far as I know, the mail adapter can create attachments only from SOAP attachments.
Does anybody know a way to create SOAP attachments from the message payload?
Cheers,
Linus

Hello,
See these weblogs to do it :
/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/03/07/mail-adapter-xi--how-to-implement-dynamic-mail-address
/people/prasad.ulagappan2/blog/2005/06/07/mail-adapter-scenarios-150-sap-exchange-infrastructure
https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/weblogs.sdn?blog=/pub/wlg/1685 [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken]
Regards,
Chris

Error while creating a production order from a sales order

Hi
Even though the product has BOM when i try to create order with a sales order reference it is showing a warning message " NO BOM FOUND" . How to correct this error .
regards,
PradeepM.

Dear ,
Goto -CS02-Enter FG -Goto Header -Staus Long Text -Check wether BOM status is set to 1 -Active .
Check the usage of the BOM -Should be 1-Production .
Check wether BOM is locked and Deltion Flag set -Header Status Long txt tab
Check the valididty of the BOM and Sales Order Schedule delivery date
Try and come back
Regards
JH
Edited by: Jiaul Haque on Jul 6, 2010 9:03 AM
Edited by: Jiaul Haque on Jul 6, 2010 9:04 AM
Edited by: Jiaul Haque on Jul 6, 2010 9:04 AM

BAPI to create SD credit MEMO from Flat file

Hello All:
New with BAPi wondering if anyone have sample code to access structured flatfiles and create transactions with the data from flatfiles. The one I am most interested is Credit Memo, however if any other transactional documents will also help as well!
Sincerely Yours

Thanks. Problem solved.
Regards,
Yayati Ekbote

How can I create a PDF catalog direct from my website?

I need to be able to easily create a PDF catalog/brochure direct from my website. Can I use the .xml file that I use for the Google Merchant Centre feed to create a catologue as this would seem to be a quick and easy solution. We have 1200 products so creating a PDF catalog from scratch will take a lot of time and effort.

This forum is only to discuss how the forums operate, not products
If you go to the Forums Index http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa
You will be able to select a forum for an Adobe product to use
You might check the Acrobat forum

Replicating Product Catalog for CRM E-commerce (empty)

Hi All,
We have CRM 5.0 and trying to implement B2B E-Commerce. We created a product catalog in the CRM and configured XCM and shopadmin application. We created webshops for B2B. The B2b Webshops list is available.
I replicated the product catalog, but When I watch the ftp folder I saw is empty. The system created folder but not images.
But after selecting any of the shop we get this error.
*The catalog that you have selected is currently unavailable; try again later *
Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem.
We have checked Trex and J2ee connection too
¿Thank you

Hi Lyda,
My best suggestion is, to separate the catalog product content from MIME (images) content while publishing.
First try publishing only a very small catalog product content without images. You can do that by not entring any value in the field - 'Publishing Computer ID' Also no need to check any of the check boxes under this field. Make sure you have enabled all required catalog components (header, variant and products etc) Also make sure you have all green lights after the initial replication.
If you have some red lights then check each red line for the error. Make sure you have esablished the necessary connection to TREX using tx SRMO
Also check XCM configuration http://CRM server:port/b2b/admin/xcm/init.do for a valid webcatalog component configuration.
If all of the above settings are OK, then check with BASIS team whether TREX installation is done properly with appropraite XCM configuration. Since you are on CRM 5.0, then SLD is a valid component where TREX has to be registered with it.
You may tcodes SRSE. TREXADMIN and SES_ADMIN to validate the TREX availability and indexing.
Hope this helps you in solving your problem
Do not forget to reward the useful answers
Regards,
Paul Kondaveeti

Cant find item document tab on product catalog

hi,
I have created a product catalog but while adding products to the catalog area i have chosen Edit->Product hierarchy->......,(i.e.,products added directly from the product master) instead of adding the products to the catalog area manually,but the problem is on the item data level the item document tab is missing,which is normally present when the products are added manually,
so my question is can we still make the item document tab available by adding the products to the product catalog area from the product master directly.
and if you follow this process even we cannot deactivate the product.
regards
chandu

Hi
You cannot see the item document tab because the 'Folder template' is missing for items in customizing for 'automatic type' catalog. You can create your own types and customize it as per your needs.

Replicating Product Catalog for CRM E-commerce

Hi All,
We have CRM 5.0 and trying to implement B2B E-Commerce. We created a product catalog in the CRM and configured XCM and shopadmin application. We created webshops for B2B. The B2b Webshops list is available.
I don´t replicate the product catalog. But after selecting any of the shop we get this error.
*The catalog that you have selected is currently unavailable; try again later *
Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem.
We have checked Trex and J2ee connection too
Is it possible access to WebShop witihin replicated product catalog?
Thank you

You replicate your product catalog to the TREX server to enhance search functionality and scalability, and to improve system performance for your customers. You replicate your product catalog from your ERP server to the TREX server, using an ABAP Report.
Transaction code ISA_CAT_REPLICATION
You use the transaction ISA_CAT_REPLICATION (ABAP Report ISA_CATALOG_REPLICATION) to replicate product catalogs from your SAP ECC server to a TREX server.

Architecture of Product Catalog Publishing

Hello CRM Experts,
I've created a product catalog in CRM 7. I'm using the CRM Webclient to create my sales documents. I thought that the catalog would be available in the Webclient but that is not the case for me. When I go to the webclient I don't see my catalog.
We're using the CRM 7.0 system in standalone mode.
While reading the documentation I ran across this document which lists the requirements for integrating the product catalog from CRM 7 to the Webclient
[http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm70/helpdata/en/1c/12b2dc57d644d19ea3a5c4156f904f/frameset.htm]
A few questions arose after I read this. I'm hoping you can help me with some of the details (the text in italics comes from the documentation referenced above).
You have set up a Java based CRM Product Catalog. For more information, see Creation of Product Catalogs. I'm assuming that this is referring to the regular product catalog I've setup in CRM 7.0. Why does it say "Java Based" ?
You have set up a Web shop running on a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) server. For more information about the configuration of the Web shop, see SAP Solution Manager Do you know where I should look in Solution Manager? What if I'm using CRM 7.0 in standalone mode. Solution Manager is not involved. I'm working on a sandbox environment
You have configured the Extended Configuration Management (XCM) settings. For more information about Extended Configuration Management (XCM) for Web Channel, see SAP Solution Manager. Do you know where I should look in Solution Manager? What if I'm using CRM 7.0 in standalone mode. Solution Manager is not involved. I'm working on a sandbox environment
You have assigned the user to a business role. The following table explains the technical names for each business role in the standard implementation: My role has Sales Professional role. I'm assuming that should suffice.
I'd appreciate your inputs.
Thanks

For E-Commerce with CRM, (Web Channel - E-Selling) Product Catalog is a mandatory component. CRM Web Channel provides the required User Interface for the CRM Product Catalog. For the functioning of Product Catalog in CRM, TREX is mandatory. While the Product catalog definition and product master data still remains in the CRM backend, the TREX (Index server) is used to keep the product id and some pertinent chracteristics / attributes of the product in indices, thus making the product search as a "offline" task and searches are much faster without any load to the backend system.
E-Commerce with ERP (R/3 backend) provides Product Catalog feature - but has two solutions, one search with TREX and the other without TREX. Product search without TREX are run in the R/3 backend. Unfortuntely there is no such solution with CRM.
Well, now coming to using Product Catalog with Web UI (Interaction Center), you need the Product Catalog in CRM, and hence TREX. Hope this explains.
Now, ask the Basis team to please read the [Installation Guide|https://websmp103.sap-ag.de/crm-inst] and [Master Guide|https://websmp103.sap-ag.de/~sapdownload/002007974700000372592008E/50089607_A4_CRM70SR1_130.pdf].
Here is the exerpt from [CRM Master Guide|https://websmp103.sap-ag.de/~sapdownload/002007974700000372592008E/50089607_A4_CRM70SR1_130.pdf] for quick reference by your so busy Basis team.
3.7.2 Catalog Management in CRM
Description
You use this business scenario to create a centralized product catalog that contains product
descriptions, multimedia displays, pricing, and associated literature. The catalog enables quick
and easy customer access to timely and personalized product information. Product catalogs are
implemented in sales processes and are of particular importance in CRM Web Channel for presenting
your products in the Web shop.
Software Units
The following software units are required for the Catalog Management in CRM scenario:
Mandatory:
1. CRM Application Server ABAP
2. CRM Application Server Java
3. SAP NetWeaver 7.0 Search and Classification (TREX 7.0)
In the current context, there is no immediate option for 3rd party solutions.

Create a product catalog from flat fiile

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for