You can display a graphic of the data flow of objects within BW in the Administrator Workbench - Modeling. This clarifies the connections and dependencies between individual objects. It can be called up for data targets (InfoCubes and ODS Objects), transaction data InfoSources and master data InfoSources.

Using Display data flow in the context menu (right mouse button) for an object, you can call up the graphic for this object on the right-hand side of the Administrator Workbench. All related objects and rules that precede this object in the data flow are displayed. For transaction data InfoSources, all related objects up to the InfoCube are displayed.

For a master data InfoSource you can also display connected source systems, DataSources and transfer rules. For a transaction data InfoSource the graphic also contains the update rules and data targets.

For a data target, related data targets, update rules, InfoSources, transfer rules, DataSources, and source systems are displayed.

The objects themselves represent nodes in the graphic. The rules that describe the dependencies between objects are displayed using arrows. An icon tells you what type of rule it is. The nodes contain the object symbol and the descriptive text. Which rule joins two objects and whether this is active or inactive is displayed using Quickinfo if you select the corresponding arrow with the mouse. By choosing the appropriate pushbutton on the data flow graphic, you can display the technical name of the objects, print, enlarge, reduce, turn, refresh, and save the graphic in jpg form.

By double clicking on a node or arrow you branch to the display of an object or a rule.