Extractor for Product Group/Member Allocation- hierarchy (table u2013 PGMI ).

Hello experts
I am looking for standard extractor for Product Group/Member
Allocation- hierarchy (table u2013 PGMI on the ECC).
Is there a standard extractor for product group-hierarchy?
Best Regards,
Tal Shalom.

Hi Lory,
I thought the document contained an explanation of remote key mapping. Obviously it doesn't, sorry.
Setting up remote key mapping is a bit complicated.
First of all go to the MDM console and check your product category field in the main table (catalog items). Is key mapping set to "yes"?
then go to the data manager and switch to the table containing the product categories in record mode. Right click on any entry and check the remote key data. Are remote keys available for your product categories. I assume that there are no remote keys available - this is the reason the system behaves as you describe it.
Setting up remote keys for existing product categories AFAIK can only be done manually in Data Manager. Alternatively you can delete your hierarchy and create it once more, creating remote keys for every entry in the table. You can chose any remote system, it just has to be the same all the time.
In import manager you have to clode the code field of your product category (basically the material group number) and assign it once to the product category in MDM and once to the remote key.
Be sure to check your configuration in MDM Import Manager, the entry "Do not update record matching field value" needs to be set to no. Otherwise no remote keys are created.
Now you can import your categories creating your hierarchy, as usual. The remote keys are created automatically.
You should assign remote keys to all fields that should be matched in a similar way, UOM, currency etc.
Hope you could follow this brief version.
Best regards,
Marcus

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    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708474(v=ws.10).aspx
    Step 7: Approve and Deploy Updates in WSUS 3.0
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708475(v=ws.10).aspx
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