Creating Documents 

Prerequisites

You are in the maintenance screens for documents.

Procedure

  1. Choose Create. You get to the Create New Document dialog box.
  2. Type the required data onto the tab pages.

Tab Page

Information

General

The document class (doc.-class) is pre-set.

BW: Physical class metadata

BW: Physical class master data

BW: Physical class for InfoProvider data

Name: Specify a technical name.

The name must be unique for all the documents in a document class.

Description

This description appears as a link-text in Web reporting.

MIME type: Simple Text is the default.

Using the pushbutton (...) next to the entry field, you can display all of the MIME types for selection in the system (see Valid File Types).

In the MIME Type column, the MIME content types are executed; under Text, a description of the application.

You determine the permitted file types in the document management section of the Administrator Workbench. For more information see Editing Valid File Types.

Select the MIME type that you want to use, and choose Transfer.

Log.Doc.Property

Logical document properties for

metadata are:

Object name

Object type

Online documentation yes/no

for master data:

Characteristic

Characteristic value

Web document type

for InfoProvider data:

InfoProvider

Query

Key figure

Various characteristics (depending on the InfoProvider)

The particular BW object that you have chosen, or the extent to which you have restricted the number of BW objects in the selection, determines if and how many of the fields are filled with default values.

Input help is available for these input fields. Fields that have dependent fields must be filled.

For example, you are not able to open the input help for the Characteristic Value field until you have selected a characteristic.

Technical Information

Document Class

Logical Document Class

You are not required to make any entries.

  1. You choose the Start Editor function to begin editing the document. The application opens according to the MIME type that you have selected.
  2. Save your entries.
  3. Close the application.