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Technical Data

Function Is

Changed

In Release

Software Component

●      Component: SAP NetWeaver

●      Release 7.0

Assignment to Application Component

BW-WHM Warehouse Management

Country Setting

Valid for all countries

Use

As of NetWeaver 7.0, the Administrator Workbench is called the Data Warehousing Workbench (DWB). The following changes and new features apply for the Data Warehousing Workbench:

Modeling and Administration:

●      Navigation

In the Modeling and Administration functional areas you can display the navigation area and, if applicable, the corresponding object tree in the left-hand area of the screen when you call applications. This means that you can use the tree to start new applications, without leaving the application you are in. You can make different settings to determine how the Data Warehousing Workbench is displayed with the applications you call. Choose the Forward/Back pushbutton in the Data Warehousing Workbench application toolbar to reactivate previously called applications.

●      Reorganization of the Administration functional area (formerly Monitoring)

The process chains are now displayed as the main application in the Administration functional area.

As well as process chains, you can call BI monitors, administrative applications, and present settings from this functional area.

●      Reorganization of the Modeling functional area

○       Dataflow in the tree

In the InfoProvider tree, you can expand the dataflow in the tree down to the InfoPackage. In the DataSource tree, you can expand the dataflow up to the InfoProviders. This allows you to avoid constantly switching between object trees, and ensures a clear representation of the relations between BI objects.

As of NetWeaver 7.0, some BI objects are replaced with newly implemented objects (DataSources, for example). To benefit fully from the different new functions, we recommend that you use the new objects. The symbols for BI objects 3.x, for which a new object concept exists as of NetWeaver 7.0, are almost identical. In the Data Warehousing Workbench, the additional symbol This graphic is explained in the accompanying text is used to identify them.

○       DataSource tree / source system tree

Source systems and DataSources are called in separate object trees. You can choose functions in the application toolbar of the tree to jump from one DataSource tree to a DataSource tree for a different source system.

○       Search

The search function in the Modeling functional area allows you to search the object categories and object types for objects that contain a particular character string. The system displays the objects found, along with their dataflow. The entire context menu is also available for the objects.

○       Favorites

You can transfer BI objects to a user-specific favorites list. The entire context menu of the relevant object is available. 

○       Tree settings

You can expand and collapse subtrees, refresh individual subtrees or the whole object tree, and hide application components and InfoAreas that do not have lower-level BI objects. A search function is available. This supports you in searching for objects in the trees.

○       Context menus

The structure of the context menu of objects has been revised.

○       Navigation

For each object that you select in the dataflow of a particular tree, you can choose a pushbutton to jump to the tree that contains the object. For example, in the InfoProvider tree, you can select a DataSource and jump straight to the corresponding position in the DataSource tree. The system displays the DataSource and its dataflow.

Obsolete Functions

●      InfoPackage group tree

You can no longer call the InfoPackage group tree from the Data Warehousing Workbench. The functions of the InfoPackge tree are now covered by process chains.

●      PSA tree

You can no longer call the PSA group tree from the Data Warehousing Workbench. The functions of the PSA tree are now covered by functions in other trees (for example, context menu option Manage for a DataSource). In addition, since an InfoProvider can be connected to a DataSource directly, the assignment of PSA tables to application components is obsolete. You do not need an InfoSource/application component for a PSA table. Therefore, displaying the PSA tree, structured by application components, is not necessary.

●      Event collector

Event collectors are triggered by process chains.

●      Reporting Agent

The Reporting Agent functional area is no longer included in the Data Warehousing Workbench. It is triggered by information broadcasting.

See Reporting Agent (Replaced)

●      Some AWB settings are obsolete in the Data Warehousing Workbench:

○       Initial view
Obsolete because the system notes the last tree that is called and displays this view the next time you call the Data Warehousing Workbench.

○       Choose display options
Obsolete because the system only ever displays the active and inactive objects.

○       Display selection for PSA tree
Obsolete because PSA trees are no longer displayed in the Data Warehousing Workbench.

○       Display of generated objects
Obsolete because these objects are now always displayed.

○       Change variants
Obsolete

○       Drag&Drop settings
Obsolete because the system now asks every time you perform a Drag&Drop operation whether you want to insert the object at the same level or at a lower level.

 

 

 

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