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Application
Process 
Application processes are processes that are to be automated in the process chain maintenance. They represent BW activities typically executed in the operative use of SAP BW.
The application processes supported by the process chain maintenance
Process category |
Application process type |
Load process and post processing |
· Execute InfoPackage You can find additional details under Including an InfoPackage in a Process Chain.
If you use process chains, the automatically integrated processes are ignored and have to be implemented using the process chain. For example, if you have selected the processing types Only PSA and Subsequently in Data Targets in the InfoPackage from the Processing tab page, and you are using this InfoPackage in a process chain, then the further processing into the data target does not automatically happen. Instead, it only happens if the process Read PSA and Update Data Target is scheduled in the respective process chain after the loading process. · Read PSA and Update Data Target · Saving hierarchies See Loading a Hierarchy Using a Process Chain ® Step 7. · Updating ODS Object Data (Further Updating) · Exporting data to external systems See Including an InfoSpoke in a Process Chain and Creating an InfoSpoke. · Deleting Overlapping requests from An InfoCube · Trigger event data change (for broadcaster) |
Data target administration |
· Deleting indexes See InfoCube Performance ® section Deleting Indexes and Including an InfoCube in a Process Chain. · constructing indexes See Including an InfoCube in a Process Chain. · constructing database statistics See InfoCube Performance ® section Database statistics. · Rolling up Filled Aggregates · Deleting data target contents in full |
Reporting Agent |
· Exception Reporting · Printing in the Background · Pre-calculating Web templates · Pre-calculating value sets You can find additional information under Including Packages in the Process Chain in the Report Agent documentation. |
Other BW processes |
· Adjusting time-dependent aggregates You can find additional information under Editing an Aggregate ® step 8. |
General services |
· Process Chain local · Workflow (also remote) |
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You
can call up documentation for a process type in the BW system by marking the
process type in the overview tree and choosing F1. The tree is located in the
left-hand screen area of the process chain maintenance. You can also add a
process to the dialog window in which the variant is fixed before choosing
Further Help.
