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In the master data maintenance, you can manually change attributes and texts or create new ones. Data is always maintained per characteristic.

There are two different master data maintenance sessions:

  • Creating or changing master data: You can add new master data records to a characteristic, change individual master data records, or select several master data records and assign global changes to them.

  • Deleting master data at single record level: You can delete individual records or select and delete several records.

You cannot run the two sessions at the same time. This means that

  • if you choose the Change function in the master data maintenance screen, the deletion function is deactivated and is only reactivated once you have saved your changes.

  • if you select a master data record in the master data maintenance and choose Delete, the create and change function is deactivated and is only reactivated once you have finished the deletion process by choosing Save.

Prerequisites

If master data is maintained for a master data-bearing characteristic, you can re-create this master data and additional master data records.

Procedure

  1. You are in the Modeling functional area of the Data Warehousing Workbench. In the InfoObject tree, choose Maintain Master Data from the context menu for your InfoObject. A selection screen appears for restricting the master data.

  2. Use the input help to select the required data.

    You get to the list header for the selection. The list header is also displayed if no hits have been found for your selection, so that you can enter new master records for particular criteria.

  3. Choose Create to add new master records. New records are tagged onto the end of the list.

    Caution Caution

    If a newly created record already exists in the database but does not appear in the processing list (because you have not selected it in the selection screen) there is no check. Instead, the old records are overwritten.

    End of the caution.

  4. Double-clicking a data record takes you to the individual maintenance. Make the relevant changes in the following change dialog box.

    Note Note

    If you change master data in the BW system, you must adjust the respective source system accordingly. Otherwise the changes will be overwritten in the BW system the next time data is uploaded.

    Master data that you have created in the BW system is retained even after you have uploaded data from the source system.

    End of the note.

  5. Select multiple records and choose Change to carry out mass changes. A change dialog box appears in which the attributes and texts are offered. Enter the relevant entries that are then transferred to all the selected records.

  6. Save your entries.

Note the exception for time-dependent master data.