Inline Conflict Analysis

Transport Expresso provides a capability to notify team members, at the point of assigning a change to a transport, if the change conflicts with another change already made to the same content in another development system. When a conflict is detected, the conflicting transports are displayed and the team member is given the opportunity not to save their changes.

When the inline conflict analysis is performed, Transport Expresso connects from the current SAP development system to the Transport Expresso domain controller, which in turn connects to the other configured SAP development systems to check for conflicting changes. A target SAP system is deemed to be a development system if the target attribute “Show transport requests created in this SAP system within Transport Expresso” is enabled.

In order to restrict the systems that Transport Expresso checks during the analysis, the relevant entries need to be maintained in table /BTI/TE_INLINE. For example, this could be used to check from the ECC project development system (field SYSID) to the ECC BAU development system only (field CHECK_SYSID). The INACTIVE flag allows specific systems checks to be switched off if required.

In addition, the client to check when connecting to the relevant development system must be specified in the target configuration Import Options tab in field “Before Importing, check whether the same content has been changed in this SAP client”. This must be done in the target system that is being connected to for the conflict analysis.

Transport Expresso’ inline conflict analysis capability is now active. You can test that it is working by making a change to the same ABAP program in two different SAP development systems.