Creating Business Objects (SAP Library - BI Suite: Business Explorer)

Creating Business Objects

Use

Business Objects are necessary for the Drag&Relate service to link the application-specific parameters of the Drag&Relate Source and the Drag&Relate-Target using the Relation Resolving Service. The Business Objects contain the necessary metadata and are saved in the Portal Content Directory (PCD).

The Distributed Query Engine (DQE) is used to import the Business Objects in order to request the metadata from the connected systems.

Note

Up to and including SAP EP 6.0 SP 11 from SAP NetWeaver 04 SP Stack 11, no names for Business Objects from the Distributed Query Engine (DQE) that start with a numeric value. For this reason, most of the InfoObjects from SAP BW automatically get a “T” at the beginning (for example, 0CUSTOMER becomes T0CUSTOMER).

Procedure

You have the following options for creating Business Objects:

Importing Business Objects

With the following steps, you can import Business Objects manually:

1. Start the Structure link Portal Content Studio.

2. Open the folder Business Objects

3. Using the context menu, create a folder with the name of the logical system from which you want to import Business Objects.

Background documentation

The Business Objects that were automatically created (see below) are created under a folder with the name of the logical system. The system automatically creates a folder.

During manual import, first you have to create this type of folder manually and store all Business Objects from the logical system in this folder.

4. Choose Import Business Object in the context menu.

5. Enter a search term and choose the associated system alias.

Note

In every case, use search with SAP BW! Due to the high number of InfoObjects, comfortable operation is not possible without searching.

6. Choose Find.

7. Choose the desired Business Object with Insert.

8. To import the Business Object, choose Save.

For more information on the import of Business Objects, see Structure link Business Object Importer and Business Object Editor.

Automatically Creating Business Objects

You have two options for having the necessary Business Objects created automatically:

The iView Wizard enables simple creation of new iViews. When you create a new iView with BW content, the system automatically imports the Business Objects that are included in the BEx Web Application. Also, the system adds the Business Objects to the Main Object property. The iView is prepared as the Drag&Relate Target.

For more information about the procedure, see Integration Using the Portal Content Studio.

The BEx Web Application Designer enables publishing of BEx Web Applications as iViews. As of SAP BW 3.5 SP 11 from SAP NetWeaver 04 SP Stack 11, the system automatically imports the Business Objects that are included in the BEx Web Application. In addition, the system adds the Business Objects to the Main Object property so that the iView is prepared as a Drag&Relate Target.

For more information, see Integration Functions in the Web Application Designer.

Result

The imported or automatically created Business Objects are visible and maintainable in the Portal Content Studio under the Business Objects folder. To maintain them, you can call the Business Object Editor in the Portal Content Studio.