Import/Export Validation Settings
Application component: Validation Engine Framework
App type: Transactional
Description:  With this app, you can export your specified selections, validation rules, and methods to a spreadsheet, or import any selections, rules, and methods exported from another system. This is particularly useful when you want to export the validation settings that are defined, activated, and tested in your quality system and import them to your production system. 
Key features: This app provides the following key features: Export You can export selections, validation rules, and/or methods that exist in your current system to a spreadsheet file as follows: Choose Download. In the dialog box, specify which selections, validation rules, and/or validation methods are relevant for the export. such as ID, created by, and date of creation.Note If you select Include referenced objects, the following are exported together with their dependent objects:  The selections that are reused by your specified rules  The basic rules that make up your specified compound rules  The rules that are assigned to your specified methods.   Choose Download.The file that contains your selected validation setting items is downloaded and saved to your native file system. Keep it intact. The next logical step is to upload the file to the target system, Remember Only active selections, rules and methods are included in the export. Draft or inactive ones are not included.   Import In the target system, you can import the downloaded selections, rules, and methods still with this app. First choose Upload, and then select the spreadsheet file you downloaded from the source system. Make sure the required master data exist in your target system. For example, the selections to be imported may contain multiple financial statement (FS) items. You need to make sure the referenced FS items exist in your target system. The uploaded items, grouped by selections, rules, and methods, will have either of the following statuses:  New for Import: The uploaded items don't yet exist in your current system. The next step is to import these new items.  Duplicated: The uploaded items have IDs identical to the existing ones in your current system. The existing items may have Active, Draft, or Inactive status. Therefore, you need to compare the duplicates and decide if you want to skip the uploaded items or to import them so that the existing items are overwritten.Note If you choose to import the duplicated items anyway, only the draft versions of existing items are overwritten because all the imported items have an initial status Draft. However, the subsequent Mass Activation action can activate these imported items and overwrite the existing active rules, methods, or selections.  You need to select explicitly the items you want to import and then choose Import. The imported items may have either Imported or Import Failed status. For the failed items, you can check the root cause according to the hints provided in Check Message. Since all the imported items will initially have the status Draft in the target system, during the import, you are asked if you want to activate them right away. If you choose not to, you can take one of the following actions later on in the target system:   Activate the uploaded items individually by using Define Selections, Define Validation Rules, and Define Validation Methods, or  Schedule mass activation jobs as described below.   Mass Activation You can also choose Mass Activation to navigate to the Schedule Mass Activation Jobs - Rules, Methods, and Selections app, where you can schedule a background job to activate your specified selections, rules, and methods in bulk immediately or at a later point in time.Note After the import, all the items have the status Draft in the target system. To use them in the data validation process, you must activate these items. The process described above is depicted in the following graphic:  
Business roles: General Ledger Accountant| Group Accountant| External Auditor - Group Reporting| General Ledger Accountant - Group Reporting| Administrator - Group Reporting
General Ledger Accountant : 
Carries out daily activities in general ledger, for example by recording transactions and making adjustment postings, and prepares financial statements.

Configuration Expert - Business Process Configuration : 
Performs business process configuration and other tasks required for implementing SAP solutions, such as scoping the solution, configuring the business processes, performing manual rework activities, and changing business process configuration.

Group Accountant : 
Executes and monitors group processing tasks, such as data adjustment, and inter-company elimination.

General Ledger Accountant - Group Reporting : 
Ensures adherence of local data to group quality standards.

Consolidation Specialist : 
Is responsible for the Consolidation setting, processing for the FI or other business data from subsidiaries. Generates the legal & management consolidated reports.

External Auditor - Group Reporting : 
Ensures adherence of group data to legal accounting standard and process governance standards.

Administrator - Group Reporting : 
Performs business oriented parts of configuration, such as  master data maintenance, universal hierarchy maintenance, reporting items table, exchange rate, rule definition.