Note correction in SPAU

Question

Hi ,
I need an help from u... pls can u tell about note correction in SPAU...
wt r its benefits and scope on note correction...
am new to this field so can u explain?

Answer 1

hi,
You can implement the correction instructions that are contained in an SAP Note. If you have modified the objects that you need to correct, you can adjust the corrections to your modifications.
Procedure
     To implement the correction instructions in an SAP Note in your system, select the note on the initial screen of Note Assistant and choose Implement Note.
The system first checks which correction instructions in the SAP Note correspond to your system release and Support Package level.
The system also checks whether you need to have implemented corrections from any other SAP Notes as a prerequisite for implementing the current correction. If this is the case, the system displays the SAP Notes in question in a dialog box.
     If you have an RFC connection to SAP, you can automatically download these SAP Notes by confirming the dialog box.
     If this is not the case, load the prerequisite SAP Notes from the SAP Service Marketplace and use the Note Assistant to upload them.
If these SAP Notes are relevant for your system and have to be implemented as prerequisites, they will be listed in the order in which they need to be implemented. (See also: SAP Note Queue). If the prerequisite SAP Notes are not relevant (because they have already been implemented by way of a Support Package, for example) and therefore do not need to be implemented, Note Assistant will automatically assign the corresponding status and will not display the respective SAP Notes in the list. You can find these SAP Notes by calling the Note Browser and selecting according to the processing status Not relevant.
If possible, the system will implement all prerequisite corrections in one single step.
Before the system corrects the objects, it displays a dialog box for selecting the change request.
    Select a suitable change request, or create a new one.
The SAP Note (R3TR NOTE) is entered in this request, together with all the correction instructions (R3TR CINS) and all modified objects, . You can use this request to transport the corrections into other follow-on systems.
Note that all the objects that you want to correct must be entered in the same request as the SAP Note data. This is the only way to make sure that the corrections are made in full in the follow-on systems.
A dialog box appears listing all the objects that you want to modify.
A traffic light symbol indicates whether or not the system can implement the correction automatically. (See Confirming Correction Implementation).
Clicking the name of the object takes you to the Changes Display, which shows you all of the changes.
If you have previously modified the source texts that you want to correct, the SAP Note is flagged with a yellow icon. You can adjust the corrections to your modifications. See Splitscreen Editor.
This type of adjustment is not possible for non-source text type repository objects or subobjects. You must perform any adjustments that may be required in the relevant object editor, either before or after the Note implementation.
If you make manual changes when you implement SAP Notes, the system cannot tell whether these corrections have been implemented correctly. For this reason, you must confirm in an additional dialog box that the corrections have been implemented in full.
If the system cannot implement a correction automatically, although you have not modified the relevant objects, first try to implement the SAP Note by using the split-screen editor. If automatic implementation fails, this is usually due to minor discrepancies in the source code.
If you still cannot implement the SAP Note, it probably contains errors. If this is the case, contact SAP Support. To do this, create a problem message and assign it to the component for the SAP Note (FI-AR-CR, for example).
When you confirm the dialog box containing the list of repository objects to be corrected, the system initially saves the modified objects in the database as inactive versions only. In the dialog step that follows, the system then asks you to activate the modified objects. The corrections only take effect in your system after you have performed this activation.
As part of this activation procedure, the system checks the syntax of the modified objects. If an error is found, the system cancels activation. Syntax errors of this kind can be caused either by modifications or by errors in the Note. If the latter applies, contact SAP Support.
Note that the system can only automatically implement changes made to certain object types. (See Technical Details on Correction Instructions)
If other changes are necessary (for example, to ABAP Dictionary objects), these are described in the text of the SAP Note. You need to implement these changes in the system manually.
        After you have implemented the corrections, test the function that contained the error and check whether the original problem has now been solved.
You can display all the objects that have been corrected by the SAP Note. To do this, choose Corrected Objects. The modification browser appears.
       Set the processing status to Completed.
In exceptional cases you can remove implemented correction instructions. The changes that you implemented are then reset. The SAP Note remains in your system and is reset to the status that it had before you implemented it.
To do this, choose Reset SAP Note Implementation.
       If you have successfully solved your problem by implementing the SAP Note, release the change request that was created when you implemented the correction instructions.
This transports the corrections and SAP Note data into the follow-on systems in your system landscape.
In spau,
all modified objects can be further edited using the Object -> Change function. This does, however, not apply to modifications made with the Modification Assistant and to objects in note corrections which have not yet been adjusted. In these cases, you must first perform the release upgrade adjustment.
Hope this is helpful, Do reward.
Edited by: Runal Singh on Jan 23, 2008 6:27 PM