Defining Key Figures
Use
You define key figures to display them in the key figure monitor in the Portal.
You define the following data for each key figure:
General:
Technical name, name, and description
Source Data
Type and technical name of key figure source system
Report that determines the value of the key figure and the variant belonging to it
User name under which the key figure values are determined (for key figure that cannot be personalized)
BW query and name of the Information Consumer Pattern for displaying the key figure details from SAP BW
External URL for displaying the key figures from external systems
Display:
Unit of measure or currency of key figure
Number of decimal places displayed
Value Range
Type of key figure
Value range of key figure defined by the maximum and minimum value of the key figure
Threshold values
Target value
For more information about defining the value range, see Type, Threshold Values, and Target Value of a Key Figure
Periodicity:
The entries
Interval
,Period
, andNumber of Periods
define the validity of and the interval for updating key figure values. They are displayed in the graphic display of the key figure value history as the X-axis. They also provide the selection period for deleting key figure values with the report KFM_OBSOLETE_VALUES_DELETE. This report deletes all values that are older than a certain number of periods.
ExampleYou have made the following entries for the report:
Period
: DayNumber
: 30Today’s Date
: 08.12Last Valid Value
: 07.12The report deletes all values that are older than 07.12.
End of the example.
Other settings:
Key figure can be personalized or not
Comments for a key figure
Key figure category
For more information about personalization, see Personalization
For more information about setting up key figures that can be personalized, see Setting Up Key Figures That Can Be Personalized .
Procedure
In Customizing for the generic key figure monitor, choose
Define Key Figures
.