Loading Hierarchies Using a Process
Chain
Use
If you want to automatically load and schedule a hierarchy, you can include this as an application process in the procedure for a process chain.
Prerequisites
You have already created an InfoPackage for loading your hierarchy (see Loading Hierarchies)..
Procedure
You can load a hierarchy into a process chain in the following ways:
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You can create your
process chain from the InfoPackage maintenance by choosing 
Process Chain Maintenance. The system
takes you step by step through the creation of the process chain.
● You can call process chain maintenance directly from the SAP Easy Access Menu: Choose Administration → Process Chains. Follow these steps:
...
1.
In the Data
Warehousing Workbench symbol bar, choose Process Chains. The Process Chain Maintenance Planning
View
screen
appears.
2.
In the left-hand
screen area of the required 
display component, navigate to the process
chain in which you want to insert the hierarchy loading process. Double-click
to select it. The system displays the process chain planning view in the
right-hand screen area.
If no suitable process chain is available, create a new process chain. More information: Creating Process Chains
3.
To insert a process
for loading a hierarchy, choose 
Process Types in the left-hand area of the screen. The system
displays the available process categories.
4.
In the process
category Loading Process and
Postprocessing, choose
the application process type 
Execute InfoPackage.
5. Insert the Execute InfoPackage application process type with drag and drop into the process chain. The dialog box for inserting process variants appears.
6. Use the input help to select the InfoPackage that you want to include in the process chain.
7.
Confirm your
entries. Add the processes 
Save Hierarchy and 
Change Run to your process chain.
You can specify multiple InfoPackages in this process variant so that multiple hierarchies can be saved with one variant. However, the sequence specified in the variant is not maintained here. If you do want to keep the sequence, for example when saving hierarchies as a subtree, you need to insert a Save Hierarchy process after each hierarchy loading process. These Save Hierarchy processes have to be saved serially, one after the other.
Hierarchy-specific processes
Process |
Information |
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This process always has to be included in a process chain, by which a hierarchy is loaded. If the Saving Hierarchies process is missing or is not used, the InfoPackage goes nowhere. This means that the hierarchy is not saved in the BI system.
Set the indicator for Activate Hierarchies After Loading or Note for Activation if the hierarchy needs to be automatically saved after the load and activated. The respective option in the InfoPackage is not sufficient, because it is only used if the hierarchy loading process (manual) is scheduled using this InfoPackage (see Loading Hierarchies). If you do not set the indicator for activating the hierarchy in the process Do Not Save Hierarchy, only a modified version of the hierarchy (M version) is saved in the BI system. The hierarchy, however, is not directly activated. |
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This process is need if the hierarchy occurs in aggregates.
If you set the indicator for Activate Hierarchies after Loading or Note for Activation in the Save Hierarchy process and have adopted the Change Run process in the chain, the hierarchy is activated by the change run. If you are not using any aggregates, you can delete this process from the process chain. |
Proceed further as described in Creating Process Chains.
Result
You have included your hierarchy loading process in a process chain.
Example
The following graphic illustrates an example of how a process chain is used to load a hierarchy.
