Structure of the Data Warehousing Workbench 

The following figure shows the structure of the Data Warehousing Workbench:

Navigation Pane Showing Functional Areas of Data Warehousing Workbench

When you call the Data Warehousing Workbench, a navigation pane appears on the left-hand side of the screen. You open the individual functional areas of the Data Warehousing Workbench by choosing the pushbuttons in the navigation pane. The applications that are available in these areas are displayed in the navigation pane; in the modeling functional area, you see the possible views of the object trees.

The following functional areas are available in the Data Warehousing Workbench:

Functional Area	See Also
Modeling	Modeling Data
Administration	Managing Enterprise Business Warehouse Data
Transport Connection	Transport System
Documents	Editing Documents in the Document View of DW Workbench
Business Content	BI Content (Versions)
Translation	Translating Text for BW Objects
Metadata Repository	Analyzing Metadata with the BW Metadata Repository

Object Trees or Applications in the Individual Functional Areas

If object trees or applications are assigned to a functional area in the navigation pane, you call them by clicking them once in the right-hand side of the screen.

Application Toolbar

In all functional areas, the Data Warehousing Workbench toolbar contains a pushbutton for showing or hiding the navigation pane. It also contains pushbuttons that are relevant in the context of the individual functional areas and applications.

Menu Bar

The functions that you can call from the menu bar of the Data Warehousing Workbench depend on the functional areas.

Status Bar

The system displays information, warnings, and error messages in the status bar.