Apart from the header data with name, description and displayed BW version of the Open ODS view, the maintenance screen also displays the General tab and, according to the semantics of the Open ODS view, the corresponding semantics tab(s) Facts, Attributes, and/or Texts. The screen also displays the Associations and Query Preview tabs.
On the General tab, you see the InfoArea assignment and the semantics of the Open ODS view, as well as information about the person responsible, the user who last changed it or the date and time of the last change. Furthermore, you can also change the assignment of the Open ODS view to an InfoArea.
The tabs Facts, Attributes and Texts represent the central area for the Open ODS view maintenance. The system displays these tabs according to the semantics of the Open ODS view. For master data Open ODS views, you can add a Texts tab to the Attributes tab, to use the texts as additional source object for the Open ODS view. Conversely, you can add an Attributes tab to an text Open ODS view. The maintenance screen then shows both tabs.
The tabs are structured as follows:
Tabs screen area | Content |
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Upper screen area | This shows information about the source object type, source object name and source system. To display and edit the full information about the source object, choose the Details button. |
Left screen area | Here you see the structure of the source object including the source fields and their properties. If you are using a transformation as the source, the InfoSource fields are displayed in the structure of the source object. |
Middle screen area | Here you see the structure of the Open ODS view with the view fields organized in field categories. In particular, you see the following information:
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Right screen area | Here you see the analytic properties of the view field for the selected source field/view field. You can hide the field properties with the button above the right screen area. You can show the field properties with the button above the right screen area. |
The Associations tabs shows a graphical representation of the associations and compounds specified in the Open ODS view.
The Query Preview tab shows the Open ODS view in a display similar to that of the InfoProvider in the Query Designer. The InfoObjects derived from the fields of the Open ODS view are displayed in the following categories:
In particular, you can see which data type is derived from the source or association for a field of the Open ODS view.