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Importing from SAP to Excel

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How do I import from SAP to Excel? Do I need to get an ODBC driver for Excel?

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2005-01-04 at 12:55:34ID21261708
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Answers

 

by: jonvaughanPosted on 2005-01-04 at 18:59:14ID: 12958992

What is it that you want to move from SAP to Excel ?

Most reports can be downloaded into Excel.

Tables can be downloaded from SE16 is you want a table dump.

You can program downloads in ABAP too.

Can you be more specific as to what you want ?

Cheers
Jon

 

by: jonvaughanPosted on 2005-01-04 at 20:02:43ID: 12959247

No you shouldn't need any kind of ODBC driver .....

 

by: Jagerhill97Posted on 2005-01-05 at 06:33:05ID: 12962127

We want to move selected fields from a table to Excel but not an entire table dump. We are trying to create an Excel query to pull the information from tables in SAP. I know there are specific programs that can be purchased to do this type of action but I didn't know if they were out there to just simplify things.

 

by: jonvaughanPosted on 2005-01-05 at 14:08:35ID: 12967038

You want to look at this from the other way around.

Instead of trying to write a query in excel to get data from SAP you should use SAP to export the data to excel, it is much easier that way.

You can do this manually via transaction SE16.
You can enter the table name - use the selection screen to select the data you want - then from the display you can export to excel.

Or you can write an ABAP which will do the same thing and export the file. If you post the details (table, selection criteria) I can probably give you some example code .

Cheers

 

by: karthikramanathanPosted on 2005-01-06 at 05:55:01ID: 12971889


SAP has a proprietary 'programming language' called ABAP.  It is possible to
get a qualified individual to write a parameterized ABAP 'script' (?)
to move selected fields from a table into Excel exports in a relatively short amount of time.

and u can find some refrence in this following link too:
www.quadrate.co.uk

hope it helps u

Rgds..

 

by: TurbettPosted on 2005-01-11 at 20:36:54ID: 13021143

Hello Jagerhill97

Probably the easiest and most flexible way to do this is thru one of the abap query transactions.
Transaction SQVI can do this and it has a very good help function that explains how it works... the drawback is that it is only for one user.
You can play around with it and  see if it meets your needs...
The query results will come back in an ALV Grid or Excel...  you can  select what fields are returned, and have a selection screen to enter the search criteria.

To allow any user to run a query, then you can create an  Infoset with transaction SQ02 (you define what fields the user will get in their results, and what fields  will appear on the  selection screen), then create a multi user query using transaction SQ01 and the infoset you creataed in SQ02.    One of  the basis people can then create a transaction from your sq01 query, and that transction can then be moved into production.  

SQVI and SQ02/SQ01 are far more powerful than SE16 as they allow you to do table joins.    SQ02 also allows you to create computed fields.  

I recommend getting familar with them.

Regards
Michael  

 

by: sppthomasPosted on 2005-06-26 at 04:20:58ID: 14303241

In SAP Business One its quite easy.
<file>
<export to excel>
 voila!

 

by: FintosPosted on 2005-10-02 at 00:46:19ID: 15001387

If you needs GL-account and/or CO element (cost center, profit center, WBS element, internal order and so on) data to be exported aumatically, you can consider Spreadsheet Server by the company Global software.
If you want to download data in general (tables, logical databases and BAPI), you can use Extract on Demand by Solonde.
Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Fintos

 

by: pedroccdaPosted on 2008-05-16 at 06:07:14ID: 21582308

Get a look here http://www.experts-exchange.com/Applications/SAP/Q_21261708.html for 2 samples creating excel report reading data from sap.

 

by: pedroccdaPosted on 2008-05-16 at 06:08:01ID: 21582314

Get a look http://mysapmynavision.myblog.it/archive/2008/05/08/sap-excel.html for 2 samples creating excel report reading data from sap.

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