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title: "Working with Master Data"
description: "The task topics along the lifecycle of a Task: finding records, preparing changes with a template, uploading, checking and correcting staged records, processing into SAP, following background runs, retrying and undoing."
source: "https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/working-with-master-data"
edition: "public-cloud"
editionLabel: "S/4HANA Public Cloud"
version: "2026.2"
latest: true
language: "en"
updated: "2026-11-05"
---

# Working with Master Data

> The task topics along the lifecycle of a Task: finding records, preparing changes with a template, uploading, checking and correcting staged records, processing into SAP, following background runs, retrying and undoing.

> **Draft brief for authors.** Section page. Ordered along the lifecycle of a Task; every topic is a task page with the fixed structure (summary, context, prerequisites, procedure, result, related information).

## In this section

- [The Lifecycle of a Task](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/task-lifecycle.md): From upload to staged records, checks, processing, results, retry and expiry: the statuses of a Task and of its records, who acts at each step, and what changes in SAP.
- [Finding and Viewing SAP Master Data](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/finding-master-data.md): Searching and filtering the live SAP lists, showing linked objects, opening a record in SAP, exporting a list.
- [Preparing Changes with a Template File](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/preparing-changes-with-templates.md): Downloading and understanding the template, filling in values, the row actions, using your own spreadsheet, uploading, reading the findings, preparing large volumes.
- [Checking and Correcting Staged Records](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/checking-and-correcting-records.md): Opening a Task's records, filtering and reading messages, Mass Edit, removing records and Tasks, the fields a run would clear, and why a record cannot be edited right now.
- [Processing Records into SAP](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/processing-records.md): What processing does in SAP, processing now or later, immediate and background runs, pausing and stopping, reading results, retrying, unknown outcomes and undoing.
- [Keeping the Staging Area Tidy](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/staging-housekeeping.md): Tasks expire 30 days after their last activity; delete finished Tasks yourself; the history stays.
- [Working on a Phone or Tablet](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/mobile-use.md): What is comfortable on a small screen (monitoring, results, pausing) and what to do on a desktop (templates, Mass Edit with many fields).