Loading Hierarchies Using a Process Chain 

Use

If you want to automatically load and schedule a hierarchy, you can include this as an application process in the procedure for a process chain.

Prerequisites

You have already created an InfoPackage for loading your hierarchy (see Loading Hierarchies)..

Procedure

You can load a hierarchy into a process chain in the following ways:

·        You can create your process chain from the InfoPackage maintenance by choosing  Process Chain Maintenance. The system takes you step by step through the creation of the process chain.

·        You can call up the process chain maintenance directly from the SAP Easy Access Menu: Choose Administration ® Process Chains.. Follow these steps:

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       1.      Choose  Edit Process Chains from the Administrator Workbench symbol bar. The Process Chain Maintenance Planning View screen appears.

       2.      In the left-hand screen area of the required  display component, navigate to the process chain in which you want to insert the hierarchy loading process. Double-click to select it. The system displays the process chain plan view in the right-hand side of the screen.

If no suitable process chain is available, you need to create a new process chain. You can find additional information under Creating a Process Chain.

       3.      To insert a process for loading a hierarchy, choose  Process Types in the left-hand area of the screen. The system now displays the process categories available.

       4.      In the process category Loading Process and Postprocessing, choose the application process type  Execute InfoPackage.

       5.      Insert the Execute InfoPackage application process type with Drag&Drop into the process chain. The dialog box for inserting a process variant appears.

       6.      Use the input help to select the InfoPackage that you want to include in the process chain.

       7.      Confirm your entries. The system automatically adds the processes  Save Hierarchy and  Change Run to your process chain.

You can specify multiple InfoPackages in this process variant so that multiple hierarchies can be saved with one variant. However, the sequence specified in the variant is not maintained here. If you do want to keep the sequence, for example when saving hierarchies as a subtree, you need to insert a Save Hierarchy process after each hierarchy loading process. These Save Hierarchy processes have to be saved serially, one after the other.

Hierarchy-specific processes

Process	Information
Saving hierarchies	This process always has to be included in a process chain, by which a hierarchy is loaded. If the Saving Hierarchies process is missing or is not used, the InfoPackage goes nowhere. This means that the hierarchy is not saved in the BW system. Set the indicator for Activate Hierarchies After Loading or Note for Activation if the hierarchy needs to be automatically saved after the load and activated. The respective option in the InfoPackage is not sufficient, because it is only used if the hierarchy loading process (manual) is scheduled using this InfoPackage (see Loading Hierarchies). If you do not set the indicator for activating the hierarchy in the process Do Not Save Hierarchy, only a modified version of the hierarchy (M version) is saved in the BW system. The hierarchy, however, is not directly activated.
Change Run	This process is need if the hierarchy occurs in aggregates. If you set the indicator for Activate Hierarchies after Loading or Note for Activation in the Save Hierarchy process and have adopted the Change Run process in the chain, the hierarchy is activated by the change run. If you are not using any aggregates, you can delete this process from the process chain.

       8.      Proceed further as described in Creating Process Chains.

Result

You have included your hierarchy loading process in a process chain.

Example

The following graphic illustrates an example of how a process chain is used to load a hierarchy.