Application Process (SAP Library - Business Intelligence)

Application Process

Definition

Application processes are processes that you want to automate in process chain maintenance. They represent activities typically performed in the operative use of BI.

Application processes supported by process chain maintenance

Process Category	Application Process Type
Load process and postprocessing	· Execute InfoPackage For more information, see Including InfoPackages in Process Chains. If you are using process chains, the automatisms of the integrated processes are ignored and have to be implemented using the process chain. For example, in the InfoPackage on the Update tab page, you select update types Only PSA and Subsequently in Data Targets. You are using this InfoPackage in a process chain. A further update into the data target does not run automatically. This is performed after the load process when the Read PSA and Update Data Target process is scheduled in the process chain. Reading the PSA and Updating Data Targets · Save hierarchy See Loading Hierarchies Using a Process Chain → Step 7. Updating DataStore object data (Further Update) · Export data to non SAP systems See Including InfoSpokes in Process Chains and Creating InfoSpokes. Deleting Overlapping Requests from an InfoCube · Trigger event data change (for broadcaster) See also Including Event Data Changes in Process Chains.
Data target administration	· Delete index See InfoCube Performance → Deleting Indexes section and Including InfoCubes in Process Chains. · Build index See Including InfoCubes in Process Chains. · Build database statistics See InfoCube Performance → Database Statistics section. Filling New Aggregates Rolling up Filled Aggregates Compressing the InfoCube Activating ODS Object Data · Delete data target contents in full
Reporting agent	· Exception reporting · Printing in the background · Precalculation of Web templates · Precalculation of value sets For more information, see Including Packages in a Process Chain in the Reporting Agent documentation.
Other BI processes	System Response Upon Changes to Master Data and Hierarchies · Adjusting time-dependent aggregates For more information, see Editing Aggregates Manually → step 8. Deleting Requests from the PSA Reorganizing Master Data Attributes and Texts
General services	ABAP Program Operating System Command Local Process Chain Remote Process Chain Workflow (also remote)
	Implementing Your Own Processes

In the system, you can call up documentation for a process type by selecting the process type in the overview tree and choosing F1. You find the overview tree in process chain maintenance on the left-hand area of the screen. You can also call the documentation from the dialog box in which you specify variants. You do this by choosing This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Further Help when you add a process to the process chain.