SAP Note 547748 - FAQ: Archiving sales documents

Component : Archiving Sales -

Solution : https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/547748 (SAP Service marketplace login required)

Summary :
This SAP Note addresses several common issues related to archiving sales documents, including customizing archive settings, error messages during archiving tasks, archiving criteria, and data retrieval from archives. Key solutions include setting document residence times via transaction Vora for specific sales types, using transaction SARA for data archiving, managing archive errors like VB 801 and VB 720, and considerations for retrieving sales document data in emergency scenarios. The note also advises on archiving checks, dealing with missing partner data in archived documents, and handling database access errors during archiving. Additionally, it discusses updating field sources in archive structures post-Release 4.6C.

Key words :
abap statement 'open cursor'/'fetch, tools -> administration -> administration -> data archiving, system issues error message vp 194, archiving -> archiving data -> archiving control, assign additional form routines, sales document header data, application-specific archiving customizing, reload archived sales documents, distribution -> data transfer, termination message vb 801

Related Notes :

577162Display of archived sales orders using VA03
520475SD archiving: Reloading documents not supported
507365User exits for check on archivability in Sales and Distribtn
488970Archivability criteria for billing docs S3VBRKWR/S3VBRKPT
481577Archivability criteria for sales documents
460620Migrating archive files
373568Archiving SD: Reloading documents not supported
373478Archiving SD_VBAK: Read program S3VBAKAU
355944SD_VBAK: Sales documents cannot be reloaded
314330Enhancements for the selection criteria SD_VBAK
153433Access to archived data from other logical systems
140652SAP AS: SD business views
99388Preliminary transport of Archive Info. System
53068Copy archived data into other systems