ABAP REPORTS: SAP BW Activating Business Content part Two

This post is in continuation with SAP BW activating business content part one . Going through that article first will give you comfort in understanding the present topic.

Enabling Business Content in SAP BW

The enabling of business content is a long process. First you have SAP R/3 instances defined as a data source in SAP BW. Then select object categories one by one, transfer SAP versioned objects to your active client, and, depending on individual object types, construct or verify transfer/communication structures and update rules to populate the InfoCubes. Finally, activate queries and channels associated with an InfoCube.

From the Administrator Workbench, choose Tools. From the drop-down menu, select Business Content. This opens another submenu and displays a list of objects, as shown below.

Activating InfoObjects

To activate InfoObjects for a specific InfoCube, such as the Customer InfoCube, select InfoObjects from the Business Content menu. This launches the InfoObject display screen.

Select all InfoObjects, transfer the SAP delivered version, and save. Then go back to the InfoObject Edit window, select these new InfoObjects, and click the Activate icon. This activates all selected InfoObjects.

After you activate InfoObjects, SAP BW displays an activation report. Make sure that there are no activation errors. If there are, first correct the InfoObjects causing the problems and then activate only the inactive InfoObjects.

InfoObjectCatalogs

After activating the InfoObjects, activate the InfoObjectCatalogs. Select the InfoObject Catalogs option from the Business Content menu. The activation process is similar to activating the InfoObjects, but you select InfoCatalog for characteristic or key figure for individual InfoCubes.

Activating InfoCubes

Business Content (SAP BW 1.2B Patch 12) provides more than 45 InfoCubes . Again, not all customers need to activate all InfoCubes. Most customers will load specific InfoCubes to assess their functionality and enhance the content to meet their needs. You can create new InfoCubes based on SAP BW-provided InfoCubes as templates. Then you remove or add elements as needed to implement your analytical applications.

To activate an InfoCube, select InfoObjects from the Business Content menu, and then select an InfoCube to activate. For example, to activate the SD Customer InfoCube, select 0SD_C01 from the list of available InfoCubes, as shown below.