There are also other options offered as priority settings, scheduling, and transport of group and group settings. All of these functionalities are described in the following and are dependent on the type of group (WODS, ODS, Cube, ChangeLog, PSA).

_{Mass Archiving in OutBoard Cockpit}

Group maintenance
To access Mass Archiving, select the Mass Archiving option in the OutBoard Cockpit or run the transaction /DVD/MASSARCH. The Group archiving screen will appear:

_{Mass Archiving initial screen}

On this screen, you are allowed to Create (F5) a new group and Edit (F6), Display (F7) and Delete (Shift+F6) an existing group. These functions are also accessible from the top menu bar (tab Run) and application toolbar. A group consists only of Objects of the same type. Therefore by the creation of a new group, you have to select the type of your group from the options at the bottom.

You may open and then administrate your mass archiving group by filling in one of its InfoProviders.

After creating a new group a user will step into the following screen:

_{Mass archiving - edit screen - setting and executing the functionality of mass archiving}

For adding Objects to the group click Add Objects(s) (F6). By a group corresponding to Cubes, DSOs and WODS users can search for InfoProviders according to either Technical name or Description.

_{Mass archiving - Add InfoProviders screen}

In the case of the PSA group, the DataSource can be selected from the list of DataSources in the system or Source System. By a "ChangeLog group" the user specifies the ChangeLogs for the group, based on the corresponding DataStore Object.

_{Mass archiving - added InfoProviders}

For deleting the InfoProviders from the group, select the InfoProviders to be deleted and click Delete Objects(s) (F7).

_{Mass Archiving - Object deletion from Mass archiving group}

Advanced features and functions

Mass archiving

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