Generating Metadata Documentation Initially 

Use

The  Generation of Metadata Documentation function on the Indexing for a Search tab page allows you to generate documentation for metadata initially.  After the initial generation, the system record changes to the metadata by default and takes these into account when next running the indexing job. You can find additional information under Tab Page: Indexing for a Search, in the Additional Functions tab page.

Procedure

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       1.      You get to the Creating and Checking-in Metadata Documentation from the Repository screen. Select the object types (TLOGO) for which you want to generate documentation.

¡        all (*)

¡        single values

¡        an interval (using input help)

¡        multiple selection (using )

       2.      Choose the version for which the documentation needs to be generated. You can generate documentation both for the active version as well as for the content version.

¡        You need the active version if you want to search in reporting or in the Administrator Workbench according to the current documentation for metadata.

¡        You only need the content version then if you want to search in the Metadata Repository for the administrator workbench according to the documentation in the content version. Content version generation takes some time to complete.

       3.      Specify whether the links for the dependent BW objects also need to be generated in the documentation. If you generate the links, the generation process takes substantially longer, because the system creates a where-used list for all BW objects. Afterwards, you can also use the objects in the where-used list to search for texts.

For example, if the Person Responsible characteristic is the attribute for the Cost Center characteristic, and you search in the documents according to the “Person Responsible” name, then the search machine finds both characteristics (or their documentation). Without generating links, the search machine only finds the Person Responsible characteristic (or its documentation).

The Generate Links indicator relates to the first one-time generation.

The program runtime depends on the number of objects and whether you are generating links to other objects in the documentation.

The program takes a while to run, so we recommend that you

·         restrict the selection

·         schedule the program to run as a background job (Program -> Execute in the Background).

·         only generate all the documentation the first time round, afterwards, only generate the BW InfoObjects that have been changed (see Take Changes to Metadata into Account)

       4.      Choose  Execute. The system generates the online documentation for the BW objects that you selected, and puts them in the index queue.

Since online documentation is always generated dynamically, this is the only way that it can be indexed, and that you are able to access the search function. You must call up this program for all installed languages.