BI Content Activation Workbench

You can use the BI Content activation workbench to activate and search the BI Content that is provided by SAP and grouped according to various business categories. The BI Content bundles provided contain all BI objects that are needed to analyze a particular business area. The workbench allows you to search for suitable BI Content using business categories, such as business processes or value scenarios, and allows you to activate the entire bundled BI Content. This ensures that you do not overlook any BI objects that are required for the analysis when searching for and activating BI objects.

As an alternative to the BI Content activation workbench, you can use the Data Warehousing Workbench (transaction RSOR) to search for and activate BI Content.

Note Note

The BI Content activation workbench only considers BI Content objects that are part of a BI Content bundle. If you want to search for all BI Content objects so you can activate them, you must use the Data Warehousing Workbench (transaction RSOR).

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Prerequisites

You have activated the business function Enhancements for Business Suite Analytics (BF_FND_ANALYTICS_TOOLS).

You call the workbench in Customizing for Cross-Application Components, under Processes and Tools for Enterprise Applications Analytics BI Content Activation Workbench . Alternatively, you can use transaction BSANLY_BI_ACTIVATION to call the workbench.

Features

Searching for BI Content

To search for BI Content, select a business category. The following categories are available:

Business processes
Value scenarios
Business functions
Others

The system displays the BI Content bundles that are available for a business category in a list. If no BI Content bundles are available for a business category in the current system, the category is not displayed.

Activating BI Content

Select one or more BI Content bundles and perform the steps described below. If you select multiple BI Content bundles (multiple selection), warnings may occur during activation. If this happens, activate the bundles individually.

Choose one of the following:
- Activate..., to activate the BI Content bundle
- Simulate Activation..., if you want to check the activation run before activating it For example, the RFC connections, the availability of the BI Content objects in a bundle, and the consistency of the bundles during multiple selection are all checked.
On the screen Activate Content Bundle, specify the RFC connections and source systems. Check the BI Content and the result of one or more activation runs. You can also choose how to treat already activated BI Content objects during the activation run.
- Choose RFC Mapping..., to specify RFC connections for the activation.
  Specify the RFC connections for activation without a system logon (background) and for activation with a system logon (dialog).
  
  Mark the RFC connection that you want to use for the activation of local BI Content objects as Local, if required.
  
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  A local RFC connection is necessary for the successful activation of a BI Content bundle if the bundle contains BI Content objects that are in the local BW client.
  
  The local BW client does not have to be in the currently used system: For example, if you work with two CRM systems. the local BI Content objects may be in the system in which you are not currently working. Make sure you specify the RFC connection that allows access to the local BI Content objects as Local.
  
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- Select an RFC Destination for Content Objects (one of the destinations that you previously specified in RFC Mapping...).
  
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  For the activation of local BI Content, only the RFC connection that you defined as Local is used (see above).
  
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- Specify the source systems by choosing one of the following options:
  - No DataSource Replication, if you do not want to assign a source system
  - Current Logon Client, to assign the logical system currently in use (usability as source system is not checked during the activation run)
  - All Clients of Logon System, to assign all clients of the current system
  - Selected Source Systems, to enable manual assignment of source systems: Choose Select..., to assign source systems
- Determine how already activated BI Content objects are to be treated during the activation run. Choose:
  - Copy, if already activated objects are to be overwritten without confirmation
  - Match, if you want a confirmation to be displayed before overwriting
Choose Show Detail..., to check which BI content objects are contained in the selected bundle and need to be activated. Objects that are activated in the local BW client are marked as Local. Choose Check Consistency, to check the availability of the listed BI Content in the assigned source systems and via the specified RFC connection.

For the activation, choose:
- Activate, to activate the BI Content using the specified RFC Destination for Content Objects
- Activate in Background, to perform the activation without manual logon to the source system (a corresponding RFC connection needs to be specified), for example, with a background user such as ALEREMOTE
  
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  If you have chosen the option Match for the treatment of already activated BI Content objects (see above), these objects will not be overwritten during activation in the background.
  
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- Simulate Activation, to continue with the simulation
Choose Show Log..., to open a list of logs for completed activation runs. Each entry provides information about whether a log is available for a particular activation run (logs can be deleted), the time and the status when the run was completed, which user started the run and which RFC connection was used. Choose an entry for which a log exists and copy it to open the log.

You can delete activation run logs:
1. Choose Extras → Delete Logs... .
2. Choose a log entry.
3. Choose:
  - Yes, if you want to delete the log and the status of the activation run
  - No, if you want to delete the log but want to retain the status information