Creating InfoObjects: Characteristics 

Prerequisites

If you want to assign your InfoObject to an InfoObject catalog for characteristics, you have to first create the InfoObject. You do not have to assign the InfoObject to an InfoObject catalog immediately, but rather at a later date if you would like.

Instead of creating a new InfoObject, you can choose an InfoObject from those delivered by SAP with Business Content (see Installing Business Content).

Procedure

  1. Using the context menu, select Create InfoObject from your InfoObject catalog for characteristics.
  2. Enter a name and a description.
  3. Specify a reference characteristic or a template InfoObject. If you choose a template InfoObject, transfer its properties for your new characteristic so that you can then edit them.
  4. Confirm your entries.
  5. Maintain the Tabstrip: General. You must enter at least the description, data type, and data length. All the following settings and tabstrips are optional.
  6. Maintain the Tabstrip: Business Explorer
  7. Maintain the Tabstrip: Master Data/Texts
  8. Maintain the Tabstrip: Hierarchy
  9. Maintain the Tabstrip: Attributes
  10. Maintain the Tabstrip: Compounding
  11. Save and Activate the characteristic you have created.

Characteristics have to be activated before they can be used.

Save means that all changed characteristics are created, and that the table entries are saved. Currently, however, they cannot be used for reporting in InfoCubes. For the time being, if it already exists, the activated, older version remains unchanged here.

Only once you have activated, are the relevant objects created in the data dictionary (data elements, domains, text tables, master data tables, and programs). Only now do the InfoCubes work with the activated, new version.

In the InfoObject maintenance, you can switch at any time between any D, M, or A versions that exist for an InfoObject.