v01s07a4 moving custom hier. into prod

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Ask the BW Expert: How Do I Get Custom Hierarchies fromDevelopment into Production?

by Frank Bulacher, BI Practice Manager, ICM America Transports,Hierarchies

Follow this simple two-step process for transferring a custom hierarchy for an InfoObject from your developmentsystem into your production system.

Dear BW Expert,

Ive created a custom hierarchy for an InfoObject directly in the BW development system and did not load it fromR/3. How do I get the hierarchy into the production environment? Should I transport the tables and copy thevalues, or do I have to create a new hierarchy in production?

Actually, you should do neither. The following gives you a short step-by-step description of how to transfer acustom hierarchy that has been created in development to a test or production system. The only prerequisites toachieving this are:

The system where you create the hierarchy (development) and the system where you want to use the

hierarchy (production) have to be linked. The development system is the source system (Figure 1),which is normally the case when you transport all your work from development into production.

Production has to be open for configuration.

Tip! Make sure that no one is working in production at this time and no configuration is being done.

In development, follow these steps:

1. Create your hierarchy for the specific InfoObject.

2. Create an export DataSource for this InfoObject.

In production, follow these steps:

1. Replicate the DataSource from the development system.

2. Link the DataSource to the InfoSource of the InfoObject that includes the hierarchies (Figures 2 and 3).


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3. Create an InfoPackage for the InfoObject that includes the hierarchy (Figures 4 and 5). If you have more thanone InfoObject, you must create an InfoPackage for each one.

4. Load the InfoObject from the development system into the production system with the same process as forloading data.

It is possible to create more than one hierarchy in BW. If you need your hierachies in production, you must load

them one at a time. To overwrite the hierarchy, simply change it in the development system and reload it intoproduction.

Figure 1 Make sure the development system is linked to the production system


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Figure 2 Assign the DataSource to the InfoObject

Figure 3 Choose the source system


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Figure 4 Create an InfoPackage

Figure 5 Choose the hierarchy DataSource for the InfoPackage

Frank Bulacher is the BI practice manager for ICM America. He has been working with BW for more than twoyears in the U.S. and Europe. Previously, Frank was a consultant in data warehousing and SAP FI/CO withPriceWaterhouseCoopers. He is a graduate of the University of Augsburg, Germany, and of the University ofWales in Swansea, U.K., with a major in banking and informatics. You may contact him via e-mail [email protected].
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