Duplicate company

I have to duplicate a company in SAP B1.
I have tried to use Copy Express to do this, but this utility doesn't copy all the data.
Now I tried to backup the database of the source company and then I will make a restore of it in another company, create in SAP B1. Is this the right way to duplicate a company?

Hi,
do you want to duplicate the hole company including the data ? Then you could do it like this :
SQL Studio > Backup Database > Restore Database under another name
If you just need the setting etc. of company A in company B, you should use copy express. Do it like this :
Create a new clear db / company in business one > Use copy express to copy the needed data from the existing to the new company.
Regards Steffen

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Facility to copy/duplicate company in Choose company form

Hi Development team mebers,
As of now if somebody wants to create duplicate company then he/she has to use SQL server to take back of existing company database and restore it.
I belive during the initial phase of impelmentation and even after going live to carry out many activities SAP suggets to take trial in Test environment.
So to make the process simple/user friendly, I believe there should be facility to create duplicate company in choose copany form/screen itself.
Destination company name and destination database name can be entered by the user.
Best Regards,
Samir Gandhi

Hi Martin,
Let us assume someone wish to execture year end / Period End process and prior to execute it in Production/Live data he/she wish to execute it in test environment.
(Here test environment meaning the user is testing particular process/function on actual/live data to see result / verify SAP B1 behaviour).
The facility which I have asked is general and applicable to every implementation.This can be everyday scenario somewhere in the world where the product is under use.
I believe many a time people would have avoided taking trials in test environment because of present many steps involved in creating test environment.
As the product is targeted to SME segment, one should not expect availability of SQL expert/SAP B1 expert all the time on site.
I believe if the above asked facility is incorporated then it can save lots of SAP B1 / SQL expert's time consumed on creating test environment worldwide (which is actually non productive/non creative for their level) and there are lots of hidden benefits toward increasing product accepability.
I hope you understand the benefit of incorporating this feature, If not please give a fresh thaught from being an implementation consultant / SAP B1 power user involved in following steps.
1.Testing the effect of new setting in live data (What if scenario)
2.To reproduce some behaviour
Above two are the crucial points which generates lots of dis liking of product if not solved fast. In such incidents nobody is going to monitor that most of the time was spend in creating test environment.
If you give deep thaught you will realise that this can even save lots of support time whether it is by SAP or the partner and reduce the total time taken in closing support calls, and improves user experience with product and support process.
Best Regards,
Samir Gandhi

Compare combintaion of two columns in two tables for duplicates

Compare company+model combination in dbo.cars table with company+Model combination in dbo.details and update the Duplicate column in dbo.cars with ‘Y’ if the combination is already there in dbo.details table
dbo.cars
dbo.details
Company
Model
Released
Duplicate
Company
Model
Year
Price
Nissan
N2011
2011
Nissan
N2011
2011
30000
Honda
H2013
2013
Honda
H2012
2013
31000
Toyota
T2009
2009
Toyota
T2010
2009
32000
For Example: In the above table only Nissan column should have ‘Y’ bcoz Nissan+N2011 exists in both table.
dbo.cars
dbo.details
Company
Model
Released
Duplicate
Company
Model
Year
Price
Nissan
N2011
2011
Y
Nissan
N2011
2011
30000
Honda
H2013
2013
Honda
H2012
2013
31000
Toyota
T2009
2009
Toyota
T2010
2009
32000
How to achieve this
Thanks in advance

Try the below:
SElect A.*,Case when B.Model is not null then 'Y' else '' end as duplicate From dbo.Cars A
Left Join dbo.details B on A.company= B.Company and A.Model = B.Model
To Update the values:
create table Cars (company varchar(100),model varchar(100),Duplicate char(1))
Insert into Cars(Company,model) Select 'Nissan','2011'
Insert into Cars(Company,model) Select 'Toyota','2011'
create table details (company varchar(100),model varchar(100))
Insert into details(Company,model) Select 'Nissan','2011'
Insert into details(Company,model) Select 'Toyota','2012'
update A Set Duplicate = Case when B.Model is not null then 'Y' else '' end
From dbo.Cars A
Left Join dbo.details B on A.company= B.Company and A.Model = B.Model
Select* From Cars
Drop table Cars,details

How to start visitor notification alerts using Company DNS and Company IP?

1- I need to set up visitor notification alerts using company DNS and Company IP? How to do that?
2- Second thing is, What is the common use of Company DNS and Company IP in Account fields?
Thanks

Shivangi,
This is largely an E9 thing - the functionality for notification has been made way easier with Profiler (yes, there is a separate license fee)
to do it without Prospect Profiler: (I think I have the actual documentation at my office - will check once I am back from #mme15
1. Go to Setup, Visitor Profiles, then edit your view to show the fields you wish to see. Since you are specifically asking about DNS and IP address, the 'Technical Information' view is a good starting point.
2. Go to Setup, Users, User Defaults and Settings, Visitor Notification configurations. You can use the default or create new (lower right corner)
Specify the view you wish to use. You can also create a custom header for this notification email.
3. Go to Setup, Notifications
Configure your rules for notification.
for your second question - common use of DNS name and IP on account fields, I do not think there is a 'common use' Since the visitor record is going to show the exact IP address and most organizations will have a range of IPs, any sort of comparison of the visitor to the account is difficult.
If your use case is to match visitors to their account, email domain is much easier. Create a field on the Contact and Account for 'email address domain', a string manipulation cloud app to take the email address and remove everything before the '@' the accounts will need to be populated with the domain via a data load (or you can get close with a update rule/validation rule set to take the company name, remove spaces and special characters and append with '.com')
You could then: link contacts to accounts using this field (will need to make sure there are no duplicate company records) or use a Match/dedupe rule to grab values from the company table to update the contact. (or vice versa)
Hope this helps.
Nathan

Data Cleansing in CRM Web UI

Dear Experts,
I have activated Data Cleansing in CRM 7.0 and it is working.
Can anyone advise on the setting or configuration required to get the CRM Data cleansing functionality to copy communication data stored at the relationship from the Source record to the Master record.
Example:
Company A has a relationship with Contact person A - this relationship has a mobile number and email address maintained.
When merging the account of Company A (source) with a duplicate company A1(master), we need to copy the relationship (already occurs) between Contact Person A and Company A and the relationship level mobile number and email address to the master account which will be company A1 (this does not occur).
Currently the relationship level communication data is not copied.
Please provide step by step config settings to enable this. I already have the SAP Notes on Data Cleansing and have covered all WIKI's on the web. What i need are specific steps to overcome this issue.
Thanks!!!

In order to transfer communication data maitained at the Contact Person relationship level, you have to maintain the required node in transaction BUSWU02: BUP115 Contact's Work Address and BUP120 Contact's Communication Data
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Force one unique record in a qualified table in data manager

Our main table is Customers. We have a qualified table that stores Company Code information. We need to ensure that each customer in the main table has only one record per company code in the Company Code qualifeid table.
Company ABC can be linked to Company Code 1, Company Code 2, Company 3 (three records in the Company Code qualified table)
Company ABC cannot be linked to Company Code 1, Company Code 2, Company 2 (three records in the Company Code qualified table where two are duplicates)
Company code is a the only Non-Qualifer field in the Company Code qualifeid table. I have set field as Unique in the console but i can still add duplicate records

Tammi,
Choosing Qualified table is wise option, when we really want to maintain possible duplicate data!
otherwise Normal Lookup table would be ideal option.
befor we proceed further, cud u pls explain me the unique factor to choose qualified in ur Business requirement?
thanks
Alexander

How to enforce unique records in a Qualified Table

Our main table is Customers. We have a qualified table that stores Company Code information. We need to ensure that each customer in the main table has only one record per company code in the Company Code qualifeid table.
Company ABC can be linked to Company Code 1, Company Code 2, Company 3 (three records in the Company Code qualified table)
Company ABC cannot be linked to Company Code 1, Company Code 2, Company 2 (three records in the Company Code qualified table where two are duplicates)
Company code is a the only Non-Qualifer field in the Company Code qualifeid table. I have set field a Unique in the console but i can still add duplicate records.

Hi Tammi,
Don't expect to get many answers from this forum, which is Business Process Expert General.
Your question sounds more like an ABAP problem. Actually, it seems to have nothing to do with SAP; it really sounds more like a general programming problem.
You will probably have better luck in one of the ABAP forums, maybe
ABAP Development
Good Luck,
DB49

Very Important Scenario - Filling Tables with Data

Hi,
For my current project, the custom (z) staged table will be filled every night with data, based on data and calculations on the previous day's material movements, for the company code selected on the selection screen (via a scheduled job that runs by using a variant.)
My question is this: Say the process is executed for one company code. Then an hour later , or at the same time, another process for a different company code is executed? What if the company code is entered twice?
What should i do in such situations? Where do the i fill the data for another company code? What if the company code is entered twice?
Points will be rewarded and all responses will be greatly appreciated.

Do you want the duplicate company code to overwrite the first one? If you want to do that then just do a read on the table for the company code. If it exists (sy-subrc) then you can overwrite the data. If not then you could always use a timestamp and the company code as the key. That would allow for multiple records of the same company code.
Regards,
Davis

Business One 2005 A SP1 Mentor Needed

Hi,
I'm a newbie to SAP Business One (but have experience with MS SQL 2000/5 Databases, SQL and OO programming, and tech admin in general, but I've just had a SAP Business One A SP1 app dropped in my lap and am a little freaked out, lol! The company I work for (very cool baby stuff co) just got bought/funded and they need to start with a fresh chart of accounts / company and I have been tasked with creating a the company and migrating some of the vendor/partner/stock data from the existing company.
I'm not looking for any hand holding per say, just someone with some experience in this domain who I can bounce some questions off of, and who might be able to point me in the right direction as to how to approach this, i.e. data migration workbench or the migration wizard, or just doing it from behind in the MS SQL DB itself after creating a basic co in the front end...anyway...sorry for the novel and the totally open ended post...I promise I won't abuse your time if anyone is willing to give me some pointers...thanks in advance!
Dustin -

Hi Gordon...thank you very much for your reply and the advice. The B1 software was originally installed by a seasoned SAP professional and is working well and already has an existing company in use, I have just been asked to create a duplicate company, only bringing over a small amount of non-transactional data such as vendor and partner contact info and special pricing data
I have already created a new test company, and it now it looks like I just need to migrate some of the non-critical data. I know sometimes things can appear more simple than they really are, and I understand that I may be missing some important aspect of this processes that would be better left to an expert. So, after my clarification of what I am being asked to do and where I am at in the processes, would you still recommend that this is best left to a seasoned SAP consultant? Thanks again for your reply! Dustin -

TreeSet and Comparator problem

Hi all ,
I am using jdk1.3 , jbuilder4.0 , Apache Tomcat 1.3.14 and Window 98 and Access Database.
I have comparator code below which give me some problem
public int compare(Object x, Object y) {
CompanyJB a = (CompanyJB)x , b = (CompanyJB)y;
double aMinratio = a.getMinratio();
double bMinratio = b.getMinratio();
int aCompid = a.getCompanyid();
int bCompid = b.getCompanyid();
String aRankstr = a.getRank();
String bRankstr = b.getRank();
int tmp;
tmp = new Integer(aCompid).compareTo(new Integer(bCompid));
if (tmp == 0) {
return tmp;
tmp = a.getRank().compareTo(b.getRank());
if (tmp !=0) {
return tmp;
tmp = new Double(a.getMinratio()).compareTo(new Double(b.getMinratio()));
if (tmp !=0) {
return tmp;
return new Double(a.getMinratio()).compareTo(new Double(b.getMinratio()));
Client source code below :
TreeSet list2 = new TreeSet(new test());
//list2.add(new test(2,1.9,4.2,"NA")); // 1
list2.add(new test(11,8.5,8.5,"2")); // 3
list2.add(new test(1,0.6,0.6,"NA")); // 2
list2.add(new test(11,2.5,2.3,"NA")); // 4
list2.add(new test(12,0.3,0.3,"1")); // 5
list2.add(new test(2,1.9,1.2,"NA"));
list2.add(new test(12,0.9,0.9,"NA"));
Iterator iterator2 = list2.iterator();
while(iterator2.hasNext()){
System.out.println(((test)iterator2.next()).getCompanyid());
My problem is that the print out display duplicate company id "12" in the set.
It should not display the duplicate company id in the set.
What is the problem here ?? Anybody have ideas ??

Actually, a Set, as defined in java.util.Set, should not contain duplicate members. With SortedSets, however, there must also be consistency between equals() and the compareTo() (or Comparator.compare()). In other words, equal objects must sort to the same or an adjacent place in order for the Set semantics to work.
In your example, "equal" objects can appear in completely different positions in the sort order, throwing off this consistency. When adding, it's traversing the tree in Rank,MinRatio order. If by chance it runs across a node that has the same company id, it stops and leaves the trees alone (as it does with id=11). If you try graphing the tree out by hand using your compare() as left/right criteria (negative left, positive right, 0 don't change), it'll become immediately clear what's happening.
Also of interest: you'll find that you can't add test(34,1.9,1.2,"NA") to the list: because it's Rank and MinOrder is the same as the id=2 entry, it'll never get added.

Transferring UDFs between companies

Hello SAP experts.
I have sorted my UDF's, but, as I am using trial and error I always have to use the Test System first (which is a duplicate company used for practising), the info needs to be transferred over to the main company.
I noticed that if I want to just manually add these again to the main company i need other users to log out. What's the best way of doing this?
thanks

Hello again Groovy,
There is an addon tool that comes free of charge with SAP Business One called Copy Express, I work for a SAP Partner in the UK and I use this to copy anything from print layouts, to master data, or even just user defined fields and the formatted searches. You can also use this to copy user settings. If you still have your SAP Addon CD then you should find it on there, however there will probably be a newer version on the SAP Portal and your SAP Partner should be able to provide you installation files.
What you can do is setup what you want to copy from your test to your live and then save this so that you can run it again and again as you add more fields etc.. You will need to get people out of the database whilst you do this as it does modify tables, but it will make it much quicker and easier for you.
I hope this helps!
Regards,
Adrian
Hi Groovy. Is this still an issue for you?
Edited by: Adrian Johnson on Jan 22, 2008 4:54 PM

HT2486 When you want to add another person from same company, how can you duplicate and then modify the card already entered?

When usinf Mac Address Book and you have entered the information for one contact from a company, how can you duplicate the card so you can add another person from same company?

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Restore the backup made earlier.
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Duplicate contact from same company?

Is it possible to duplicate a contact from the same company for a new contact so that all I have to do is change the name and perhaps a phone number? I don't want to have to type from scratch all the info on several people when the only field different is the name. Outlook has had "New Contact from Same Company" for years. How come Apple doesn't have this feature for Address Book/Contacts???

Well, we'll, well, all operations are referring to the left part of the window and with a contact marked there, yes? So, highlight a contact in the left half, then Command-C and Command-V.
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MOV 68A and 68E (intra company) duplicate freight cost

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We are currently in version 702 with EP5.0. We activate BF LOG_MM_SIT and we are using scenario N6 for intra company process and N3 for inter.
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Didn't find any OSS Note.
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Best regards.
Tania Trindade

Hi Atif,
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http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_06_hana/helpdata/en/8a/0c5d09a7794ae6938f9c8184f4251f/content.htm
and here
Cost Distribution for Shippers - Settlement - SAP Library
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Vendor duplicate check

Hi,
I working on a report that checks for vendor duplicates.
Looking forward to your good ideas and/or code samples and take appropriate action on good/interesting answers.
For example
1) how would you check on duplicate names?
2) how to check the postcode field if there are no checks on the input format (e.g. ignore upper/lower case and spaces)?
3) which vendor master fields would indicate duplicate vendors (e.g. company registration number, VAT registration number)?
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