Procedure documentationCreating Navigation Attributes Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Prerequisites

You are in InfoObject characteristic maintenance and have selected the tab page ‘Attributes’.

Procedure

  1. Choose Details/Navigation Attributes.
  2. Specify the technical name of the characteristic that you want to use as a navigation attribute, or create a new attribute by choosing ‘Create’. You can also directly transfer proposed attributes of the InfoSource.

    3. Note

    So that you can use the characteristic as a navigation attribute, make sure the InfoObject is assigned as an attribute first, and that the option ‘Attribute only’ is not activated for the characteristic on the tabstrip ‘General’.

  3. Choose Details/Navigation Attributes. By clicking on the symbol Navigation Attribute On/Off in the relevant column, you can define an attribute as a navigation attribute.
  4. Click on the symbol and enter a name in the Navigation Attribute Description field.

Note

If you turn a characteristic attribute into a navigation attribute, assign a text to the navigation attribute, so that it can tell it apart from a normal characteristic in reporting.

Result

You have created a characteristic as a navigation attribute for your superior characteristic.

Further Steps to Take

You must activate the created navigation attributes in the InfoCube. The default is initially set to "off" so as not to implicitly include more attributes than are necessary in the InfoCube.

Note that you can subsequently create or activate navigation attributes in the InfoCube at any time. Once an attribute has been activated, you can only deactivate it if it not used in aggregates.

In addition, you must record navigation attributes in queries, so that they are taken into account in reporting.