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Procedure documentationDefining Virtual Characteristics

 

You can define virtual characteristics to map them to real characteristics.

For example, you can map customer-specific organizational units (region, line of business, etc.) to organizational units in the SAP systems. You can analyze key figures based on customer-specific organizational units, which do not have a one-to-one relationship to the organizational units in an SAP system. You can see a virtual characteristic as a container that groups real characteristics.

Procedure

  1. In the Business Process Operations work center, choose Maintain BPO Reporting Infrastructure.

  2. Choose the Virtual Characteristics tab.

  3. In the guided procedure step 1, enter a semantic ID beginning with ZVIRT_ and its descriptions in the required languages.

  4. In step 2, define a virtual characteristic beginning with ZVIRT_ and assign semantic IDs to it. Enter the descriptions in the required languages.

  5. In step 3, define values (and their descriptions) for each virtual characteristic. You can map these to real values in the next step.

  6. In step 4, map the values of the virtual characteristics to real values. To do this:

    1. Select a virtual characteristic and a value, and select a semantic ID from the input help.

    2. Enter real values for the semantic ID.

      Example Example

      Virtual Characteristic

      Virtual Characteristic Values

      ZVIRT_CHARSTIC_REGION Region

      FRANCE France

      Virtual Characteristic Value Mapping

      Semantic ID

      Values

      ERP_BUKRS

      Sign: I, Option: EQ, Low: 3000

      Sign: I, Option: EQ, Low: 6000

      ERP_VKORG

      Sign: I, Option: CP, Low: AND*

      Sign: I, Option: CP, Low: FR*
      End of the example.

  7. In step 5, you add the virtual characteristics to the analytical key figures. Select the analytical key figure and the virtual characteristic from the input help.

  8. Save your entries.