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Hierarchy Flat File Loading

This document describes how to load a hierarchy with single values and intervals from a flat file into SAP BW 7.3. The steps include: 1) Creating the info object with hierarchy properties; 2) Creating a flat file data source with the hierarchy structure; 3) Creating an info package and selecting the hierarchy; 4) Mapping the file segments to the info object in a transformation; 5) Creating a DTP for loading the hierarchy with error handling deactivated to see any errors. After loading, the hierarchy can be viewed with single nodes and interval values represented.

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Hierarchy Flat File Loading

This document describes how to load a hierarchy with single values and intervals from a flat file into SAP BW 7.3. The steps include: 1) Creating the info object with hierarchy properties; 2) Creating a flat file data source with the hierarchy structure; 3) Creating an info package and selecting the hierarchy; 4) Mapping the file segments to the info object in a transformation; 5) Creating a DTP for loading the hierarchy with error handling deactivated to see any errors. After loading, the hierarchy can be viewed with single nodes and interval values represented.

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March 26, 2015 4 minute read

SAP BW 7.3 – Hierarchy loading with


Single values and Intervals (Flat File)
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Introduction:

Certain reporting scenarios in SAP BW require hierarchical representation of master data. To enable these
master data in BW there has to be maintained as hierarchies. Examples of few hierarchies are Material, GL
Account, Cost Center, Organization structure etc.

In BW, the characteristic hierarchies are enabled in the tab ‘Hierarchy’. Depending on the requirement, the
properties could be selected.  This document describes loading/maintaining of a non-time dependent hierarchy
with intervals. We are considering flat file loading scenario in the version of SAP BW 7.3.

Step 1: Create the Info object bearing hierarchy and choose the desired properties

If we need external characteristics in the hierarchy tree, we can include them by clicking on the tab button
Step 2: Create the Flat file data source

While creating the Data source, if we select “hierarchy is flexible”, the Data Source will be created with the new
structure, if we leave it blank the Data Source will be created with the old structure.

Select the check box -”Hierarchy is Flexible”, if we have compounding Attributes.

The checkbox ‘Intervals permitted in hierarchy’ is enabled when we click on ’Read Info Object properties’, as we
have already selected this option in info object definition.

File structure:
We can also create an example file to check the file structure by clicking on the tab button

Hierarchies are loaded as multiple segments. The different segments of this hierarchy are seen in the
‘Segments/Fields’ tab.

Segments are created based on the hierarchy properties. For example, we got the 5th segment ‘Node Intervals’,
as we are creating a hierarchy with intervals,
Preview of different segments is possible in the ‘Preview’ tab.
If we select the segment – Node Intervals, it will show the  “To values”  in the intervals.
The structure of the file is as below –

A. S.No Field Name Data Type Length Description Comments

1 NODEID NUMC 8 Node ID

2 IOBJNM CHAR 30 Info Object Name

3 NODENAM CHAR 32 Node Name


E

4 LINK CHAR 1 Link name

5 PARENTID NUMC 8 Parent Node

6 LANGU LANG 1 Language Key

7 TXTSH CHAR 20 Description – Short

8 TXTMD CHAR 40 Description – Medium

9 TXTLG CHAR 60 Description – Long

10 INTERVL CHAR 1 Interval

11 / CHAR 8 Plant From plant


BIC/Z_PLA
NT

12 TO_Z_PLA CHAR 8 Interval – Plant To Plant


NT
Sample File to load plant hierarchy is as below:

Note: The sample file above has texts as well in row no. 16 , these are loaded only till PSA and will not be
reflected in the hierarchy. But the texts maintained for the master

           data Z_PLANT will be reflected in the hierarchy.

Step 3: Create Info package and Click on Create Header (To maintain the Hierarchy technical name and
Description).
You will find the Hierarchy name in the ” Hierarchy Selection ” Tab:

Step 4: Select the appropriate Hierarchy ( In our case it is INDIA)

Step 5: Create transformation for the hierarchy info object

All the segments have the corresponding mappings done in transformations. For this scenario of hierarchy with
intervals, we need to do the mapping from TO_Z_PLANT to Z_PLANT as it is not auto-generated
Step 6: Create DTP  for hierarchy load

The setting for DTP error handling has to be ‘Deactivated’. If we set it as ‘No update, No reporting’ we cannot see
the exact error when hierarchy data load fails.
If we select DTP error handling ‘Deactivated’, it will show the appropriate error message:

As seen in the screen below, the appropriate error message is shown in the case of duplicate nodes.
Based on the error displayed, we have to ask the business to correct the data in the Flat File and we have to
reload it.

After loading the data hierarchy we can see single nodes and intervals as shown below:

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