FI docs Archiving

Question

Hi
We are planning to archive FI documents - GL, AR and AP and even sales orders. does anyone using FI archiving? what checks system does before archiving the docs? can we archive AR, AP and GL line items? what is the impact on standard SAP reports. If i want to view archived data later, how I can view them.
thanks
kum

Answer 1

Does anyone using FI archiving?
Yes, You need to archive the document in the archive object FI_DOCUMNT.
what checks system does before archiving the docs?
You need to determine the data which is no longer useful and only required for the audit purpose.
can we archive AR, AP and GL line items?
yes, You need to maintain the data in archive object FI_DOCUMENT, you can check the required table via tcode DB15 present in archiving object FI_DOCUMENT.
what is the impact on standard SAP reports.
Many FI transactions provide the functionallity to fetch the data from Archiving object and Database both.. But there are few transaction which won't provide the functionallity to get data from Archive objects.
You need to create a Z program for those and make them archive enabled if requierd.
If i want to view archived data later, how I can view them.
You can view them via Zreport, there are many FM to view the data. also you can use TCODE SARA, SARI.
You can get more info on internet on archiving... Just google and search for Archive FI data + sap..
Edited by: Navneet Chaubey on Apr 10, 2009 1:38 AM