1. The read program from SARA does it reads only the fields those got archived? this question arised because we have archived one object and when we tried to read the archived data using read program in SARA it displayed only 3 fields. While the orginal sales order document has many fields does that mean all the feilds in sales order was not archived??
---> The fields which you have seen in SARA is from info structure and does only have the meta data, if you double click the record then you will able to see the full sales order fields with archived data. If you want to see archived sales order then you can use t code VA03.
2. Only few t-codes display the archived data directly like FB03. However for most of the tcodes to retrive the archived data SAP says to use SARI. However how does the end business users will be able to retrieve data if they need archived data? giving access to SARI is not possible for the end users and to display the data as well from SARI, we need to create the info structures..but info structures occupy space and again these structures can have varied column feilds rght? how the access to end users will be provided??
---> SAP has provided atleast one t code to retrieve Archived data for critical and important modules (sd,mm,fi..etc), however as you said most of the tcodes wont support the archived retrievability and you have to go for info structures and no other way.
With regards,
Tony.