Import of PDF & images.

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I want to know how PDF's & images are brought into MDM?

Is it advised to maintain the exact images or PDF's in MDM or give only the link

of the documents.

Regards,

Pramod.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Pls give your email. Will send.

also refer this for Impoting of Images you can go through this link:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_mdm550/helpdata/en/43/933b27ff0b274ee10000000a422035/content.htm

Is it advised to maintain the exact images or PDF's in MDM or give only the link

of the documents.

It is advised to store thumbnails and links.

Hope this helps,

+ An

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am trying to assign multiple images to a single catalog item through MDM. Cannot get it working for multiple images. Though I can assign the default image to a catalog item but cannot assign multiple images at once. My excel looks like this

Catalog Item ID	Node Id	Image
ProdA	NodeA	CMLProdImg.bmp
ProdB	NodeA	ResProdImg.bmp
ProdC	NodeA	product_pic_2.bmp
ProdD	NodeA	24XXXX_img.bmp

I am matching records based on catalog item id and node id. But in maching record selection I can only see catalog item id as available. Node ID is from a hierarchy table I think.

Any pointers would help much

[Former Member]

Hello Pramod,

You can use the Import from Excel command to import links to images and PDFs that already exist in the repository. You do this by including a column in the Excel spreadsheet that contains the Original Name of the image/PDF you want to link to each record (where multiple image/PDF names can be delimited using the Multi-Value Separator).

If the link being imported cannot be resolved to a unique image or PDF, the import on the corresponding record fails.

You cannot use the Import from Excel command to import links to other types of objects, nor to import the objects themselves:

Object fields in the Excel import file other than image and PDF fields will not appear in the import dialog.

Since text blocks, copy blocks and text HTMLs do not have a name by which they can be referenced, you cannot use the Import from Excel command to import text block, copy blocks or text HTML links.

To reduce but not totally eliminate the potential for ambiguity, you can also specify the data group corresponding to all the images/PDFs for each record in an optional second column named fieldname [Data Group].

Hope it helps.

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BR,

Krutarth

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Thanks for all your reply.

I am able to add the data groups.

I have taken an excel file with field as images. I am able to see the images loaded in Data manager previously. After mapping I am not able to proceed.

Matching records is freezed. refresh button is not enabled.

What should be done?If any sample excel sheets are there pl send it to pramodg60 gmail.com

Regards,

Pramod

[Former Member]

Hi Pramod,

Correct me if i am wrong.

You have already imported the Images into MDM ( Images Tables )through your Data Manager, now you need to link these images to your Main table Records.

Hence take a source file wherein you have atleast 2 Fields :

1. Field1 - This should ideally be your Unique field. For ex, Material ID, Customer ID, Product ID etc.

2. Field 2 - Corresponding, Image link / name.

Hope you would have created a field of type - LOOK UPIMAGE]

in your Main Table.

3. Now, map the 2 fields in the Import Manager. ( Source and Destination )

Field1 ( Source) - Field 1 (Destination )

Field 2 ( Source ) - look-up Field ( Destination)

4. You can now choose the Field 1 as the Matching Field in the Import Manager. And Import the Record.

Please revert if need furthur clarrifications.

Hope it helps.

Thanks and Regards

Nitin Jain

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Thanks for all your reply.

Now i am able to import images & pdf's.

I have rewarded points.

Regards,

Pramod

[Former Member]

Hi,

You need to import/upload image files into the Images table via Data Manager. Then you can import image file names (for appropriate records) via Import Manager. Here're the steps you need to go through in detail:

1. In Data Manager, table Images, Add a record.

Data Manager will display a dialogue box "Add Images". Here you can specify multiple image files to upload. Ensure the radio button "Store in Repository" is selected. Optionally, specify a Data group (to help organize your image file records in MDM - e.g., by supplier). Click OK - Data Manager will upload all your image files into MDM.

At this point, your image files reside on the MDM server, but are not associated with product records yet. I.e., you can view them in Images table, but not in Catalog Items table. On to the next step.

2. In Import Manager, connect to your source (e.g. Excel sheet with records), and import as normal. Note: in your source file, specify an image file name (e.g. "image.jpg") in the Image column against each product record for which an image file was uploaded earlier into MDM.

After the import is done, you'll be able to see the images in the Catalog Items table.

by using java api, Please go through this link

https://help.sap.com/javadocs/MDM/current/index.html --> Packages --> com.sap.mdm.blobs

com.sap.mdm.blobs.commands

hope this may help you,

Regards,

Hari

[Former Member]

Hi,

MDM allows you to store PDFs and images in the repository in corresponding Object Tables i.e Images and PDFs .

To store them,

In console in your repository create a new field of type LookUp Image(or LookUp PDF).

In Data Manager select Images table(for PDF select PDFs table).In Records pane right click->New.It asks u for a Data group.Data group is a container for storing images.For eg.Data group A can be used to store company logos.

Click Edit to add a new Data group.Right click->Add as a child->give it a name ->Ok.1.

To load the Images in Data Group.

1. Select the data group.

2. Click on Add Button.

3. Select the Image files you want to load from source folder.

4. Select one of the storage options as follows:

Store in Repository

Link to Original File Only

The storage option determines whether or not the image is stored in the repository. If you select Link to Original File Only, MDM expects to find the image file in the original source location. If you decide later to store the image in the repository, you must use the Reimport command to reimport the image from the original location.

After importing click Close.

.Linking Images to corresponding records in Import Manager

Select the repository.In this case your source file should have a field say Images with values referencing to images(say I1 refers to image1 ,i2 for image 2).map the corresponding fields.For image field u hav to do the value mapping.(That I1 correspond to image1).Then select the matching field,import action and do the import.

Similarly for PDFs .But in this case in console right click on repository ->properties->set allow Invalid PDFs to Yes.Else it wont import the PDFs

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Regards

Nisha

Edited by: Nisha Lalwani on Mar 31, 2008 7:07 AM

Edited by: Nisha Lalwani on Mar 31, 2008 7:09 AM

Edited by: Nisha Lalwani on Mar 31, 2008 7:11 AM

[Former Member]

Hi Pramod,

MDM provides u the facility of storing images, pdf's, text blocks etc which are known as Object Tables just to enrich data storage for any record.These tables can not be syndicated but can be leveraged by components like SRM and CRM for catalogue management through MDM.

I will also tell u the stepwise procedure of Image Import.

i will like to say that image can be be surely imported through import manager.But the work starts in data manager.

I will give u the stepwise approach.

step1 :Create a repository with lookup images in the console and load the repository.

step2:

Goto Data Manager toolbar.There u have an option Objects .Goto Objects-> Edit Data group->

An dialog box will open .Click on the data object and select As child and create a new data group .U can name it.

Step3:

Select images as the dropdown in data manger.In the object pane u have Image, Name, Data group etc..

Click on data group and select ->Add.

It will pop up a dialog box.Select the dialog box in the dropdown and select the data group created.

Then it will prompt to add files (images).Add it from ur local disk and then import .U will find the image added .u can add several images like this.

Step4:

Then go to import Manger and Select the source file in the source and the lookup image in the destination.U will find all the images loded in the previous step in the data manager.

map the field level and at the value level map the images to the records. Then do the import.it will be associated.

Hope it will help u.

Please reward me points if u find this blog helpful.

regards

Deepankar