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This document outlines the process for creating a custom CDS view in SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The steps include selecting a primary data source and associated data sources, defining the association between them, selecting which fields to display, and publishing the view. Custom CDS views can merge data from different sources and be used in applications like analytical queries.

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This document outlines the process for creating a custom CDS view in SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The steps include selecting a primary data source and associated data sources, defining the association between them, selecting which fields to display, and publishing the view. Custom CDS views can merge data from different sources and be used in applications like analytical queries.

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How to Create a Custom CDS View

Get an overview of how to create a custom CDS view.

Business Benefit

This process enables you to create custom CDS views that can be used to merge data from different data
sources. The custom CDS views can later be used in other applications, for example, in Custom Analytical
Queries.

Process Steps

1. Create Custom CDS View with oData:

1.1 Login to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, select ‘Extensibility’ and click ‘Custom CDS Views’ application:

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1.2 Click ‘Create’ to create a new Custom CDS View:

1.3 Provide a ‘Name’, ‘Label’ and check the ‘oData’ checkbox. The general naming convention for
Custom CDS Views starts with ‘YY1_’ which is prefixed automatically:

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1.4 ‘Add Primary Data Source’:

Search for ‘Supplier and select ‘I_supplier’

Note: For our scenario, we will add ‘I_SUPPLIER’ CDS View as ‘Primary Data Source’

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and ‘I_supplierCompany’ CDS View as ‘Associated Data Source’

1.5 Click ‘Add’

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and then click ‘Add Associated Data Source’:

1.6 Search for supplier Company, select ‘I_supplierCompany’ and click ‘Add’:

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Note: We can have one CDS View as Primary Data Source and one or more related CDS Views as
Associated Data Sources based on our scenario.

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1.7 Click ‘Edit Association Properties’ to define the association between the selected CDS Views:

1.9 Here we will define the association condition.

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Click ‘add data source’ for ‘Associated Data Source Fields’ and select ‘Supplier’:

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1.10 Select the ‘Operator’ as ‘=’ and click ‘Value help’ for ‘Value’:

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1.11 Select ‘Supplier’:

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1.12 Click ‘Close’ as we have finished defining our condition:

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1.13 Click ‘Elements’ through which we will select all those fields which we want to be displayed:

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1.14 Check the ‘Select’ checkbox for the fields which we want to be displayed in result:

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1.15 Click ‘Publish’ which will publish our CDS View:

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Note: We would need at least 1 key field to be present in the “Selected Fields and Associations” and the
order for display (which field to be displayed first, second and so on) can be set by us. The fields are to
be selected based on the requirement we have for showing data.

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1.16 Click ‘Preview’ to see the display result of our published CDS View:

1.17 For example, here the result shows us some details about vendors

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