Editing Hierarchies 
Prerequisites
You have already created a hierarchy for the required hierarchy basic characteristic (see Creating Hierarchies).
Procedure
You can create hierarchies in two ways: Either from the SAP Easy Access Menu or via hierarchy maintenance in the Administrator Workbench.
·
From
the SAP Easy Access Menu, choose Modeling
® Master Data
Maintenance ®
Hierarchies.
The Initial Screen Hierarchy Editing dialog box appears. You can find
additional information below in the section “Accessing via 
Editing Hierarchies“.
· You are in the Modelingfunction area of the Administrator Workbench. You can access hierarchy editing in the following ways:
¡ You can select an editing function in the context menu of a hierarchy in the InfoObject tree.
¡
You
can call up hierarchy maintenance via Edit Hierarchies from
the symbol bar in the Administrator Workbench.
Access via InfoObject tree
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1. In the Administrator Workbench, under Modeling, choose the InfoObject tree.
2. If you have assigned the hierarchy basic characteristic to an InfoObject catalog, select the corresponding InfoObject catalog for an InfoArea.
If the hierarchy basic characteristic does not belong to an InfoObject catalog, choose the InfoArea Non-Assigned Nodes and the InfoObject Catalog Non-Assigned Characteristics.
3. Select the characteristic hierarchy you want to edit and choose an editing function in the context menu. The following table gives you an overview of the available functions:
Processing functions
Function |
Information |
Display |
You get to the Display Hierarchy screen. |
Change |
The Change Hierarchy screen appears. |
Copy |
If several versions of the hierarchy are available, the Selection of Hierarchy Object Version dialog appears. Choose the variant you want to use. The Save Hierarchy As dialog box appears. Enter a hierarchy name. If the hierarchy is version or time dependent, enter the hierarchy version and the validity date (see Hierarchy Properties). You can enter descriptions (short, medium and long) for the hierarchy to be copied. |
Delete |
Confirm the prompt if you do actually want to delete the hierarchy. |
Activate |
The system declares whether activation was successful. In cases where it is not possible to activate the hierarchy, a dialog appears with the error log. If the hierarchy is already used in an aggregate, you can choose · whether you want to activate the hierarchy directly and thus delete the aggregate, · or whether you want pre-select the hierarchy for activation. In the latter case, you need to run the change run for this hierarchy. This updates all the aggregates contained in the hierarchy and activates the hierarchy. See Adjusting Changes to Hierarchies and Attributes |
Access via Edit Hierarchies
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1.
Choose
Edit Hierarchies from the Administrator
Workbench toolbar. The Initial Screen: Hierarchy Editing appears
with a list of all hierarchies in your BW system.
2.
You
can restrict the list to hierarchies for a particular characteristic. F4 help
is available for the field Restriction to Hierarchy Basic
Characteristic. After selecting the required hierarchy basic
characteristic, choose 
Filter.
3.
If you
want to see details about a hierarchy, choose 
Details! A dialog appears which may contain
the following entries:
¡ Internal hierarchy ID
¡ Short description
¡ Hierarchy name
¡ Hierarchy type
¡ InfoObject
¡ Version
¡ Valid to
¡ Valid from
¡ Source system
¡ Request no.
¡ Person responsible
¡ Number of levels in hierarchy
¡ Largest node ID of hierarchy
¡ Hierarchy is consistent
¡ Root node ID
¡ Language key
¡ Medium description
¡ Long description
4.
Select
the hierarchy you want to edit and then choose an editing function from the
table: 
Change Hierarchy, 
Display Hierarchy, 
Delete Hierarchy, 
Copy Hierarchy, 
Activate Hierarchy.
The function 
Create Hierarchy is
also available (see Create Hierarchy).
See also:
Functions of Hierarchy Maintenance