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Manage BDC Screens and Fields

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This optional step allows for BDC scripts to be manually modified to remove or edit screens as well as remove or edit fields on screens.

BDC screen fields are individual fields that capture data during the BDC script recording. If redundant steps were created during a recording or if a step was left out, the screens can be manually added, deleted or edited without having to re-record the script, regardless of the recording mechanism used.

Fields can be edited or removed from each screen on the BDC Screen Fields page.

NOTE: Screens and fields cannot be updated if the template is active.

NOTE: If a user makes changes to screens or fields then records the BDC script again for the template, Integrate overwrites these changes.

To manage BDC screen fields:

  1. Select Categories from Navigation pane.
  2. Click the Templates icon for a category.
  3. Locate the template with a type of BDC Script.
  4. Click Vertical View.
  5. Click Configuration tab.
  6. Click BDC Screen button.

  7. Click Edit; Vertical View displays.

    View the field descriptions for the BDC Screen page’s Vertical View.

  8. Enter a sort order value in Priority.
  9. Enter an SAP screen number name in Screen Number.
  10. Enter an SAP program name in Program.
  11. Click Save.

  12. Click the Fields icon for a screen.

    NOTE The number displays the number of screen fields (those records that have the Is Field check box enabled). If Is Field is checked, the record represents a field in SAP and can be mapped to data in a process.

  13. Click Edit.

    View the field descriptions for the BDC Screen Fields page.

  14. Enter a sort order value in PRIORITY.
  15. Enter an SAP field name in FIELD NAME.
  16. Enter an SAP field value in FIELD VALUE.
  17. Click Save.
  18. Locate a field.
  19. Click Vertical View.
  20. Click Advanced tab to view additional screen field properties pulled from SAP.

NOTE: The field metadata is extracted from SAP for manually added fields when the template is activated.