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Function documentation Additional Functions in ODS Object Maintenance Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Documents

This function allows you to display, create or change documents for ODS objects.

See also: Documents.

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Version Comparison

You can use this function to compare the following ODS object versions with regard to changes in ODS object maintenance:

·        the active and modified versions

·        the active and Content versions

·        the modified and the Content versions

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Transport Connection

You can choose and transport ODS objects. All those BW objects that are needed to ensure a consistent status in the target system are collected automatically.

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Where-Used List

You determine which other objects in BW also use a specific ODS object. You can determine what effects changing an ODS object in a particular way will have, and whether this change is permitted at the moment.

Business Content

In ODS objects from Business Content, you can use this function to jump to the transaction to transfer the business content, to copy the ODS object and to compare it with the customer version. For more information, see Business Content (Versions).

Structure-Specific Properties of the InfoObject

In the context menu for an InfoObject, you can assign InfoObjects specific properties that are valid only in the ODS object you are currently processing.

These settings correspond for the most part to the settings that you can make globally for an InfoObject. For characteristics, these are Display, Text Type and Filter Value Selection upon Query Execution. See also the corresponding section in Tab Page: Business Explorer.

You are also able to specify constants for characteristics:

A fixed value is assigned to a characteristic when you assign a constant. This means that the characteristic is available on the database (for verifications, for example) but is no longer displayed in the query (no aggregation / drilldown is possible for this characteristic).

It is particularly useful to assign constants for compound characteristics.

Example

Example 1:

The storage location characteristic is compounded with the plant characteristic. If only one plant is ever run within the application, you can assign a constant to the plant. The verification for the storage-location master table runs correctly with this value for the plant. In the query, however, only the storage location appears as a characteristic.

Example 2:

For an InfoProvider, you make the setting that only the constant 2005 appears for the year. In a query on a MultiProvider that contains this InfoProvider, the InfoProvider is disregarded if the selection is for year 2004. Query performance is improved in this way as the system knows from the outset that it does not have to search for any records.

Special case:

If the constant SPACE (type CHAR) or 00..0 (type NUMC) is assigned to the characteristic, specify the character # in the first position.

For key figures, the settings Decimal Places and Display are available. See also the corresponding section in Tab Page: Additional Properties.

Info Functions

Various information functions are available referring to the status of the ODS object:

·        The log display for the save, activation and deletion runs of the ODS object,

·        The ODS object status in the ABAP/4 Dictionary and on the database,

·        The object catalog entry.

Performance Settings:

You can set the DB Save Parameters using Extras.

 

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