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Info objectsInfo objects are business evaluation objects in BI/BW. Info objects are the smallestinformation units in BW.They structure the information needed to create data targets.infoobjects with attributesor text can be either data target's or infoproviders

They are divided in to Five types

1. Characteristics Ex: Material

2. Key figures Ex: sales3. Unit Ex: amount , quantity4. Time Ex: Year, month,date There are 13 predefined Time characteristics in SAP BI we

cant create new time characteristics5. Technical Ex: Request number , Technical characteristics are used for administrative

purpose with in BI/BWSteps to create an Info object

Create Infoarea (InfoAreas are used to organize InfoCubes and InfoObjects. EachInfoCube is assigned to an InfoArea. Through an InfoObject Catalog, each InfoObject isassigned to an InfoArea as well. The maximum number of characters allowed for thetechnical name is 30.)

Create Infoobject catalog (InfoObject Catalogs organize InfoObjects. Two types ofInfoObject Catalogs exist: one for characteristics, and one for key figures. The maximumnumber of characters allowed for the technical name is 30.)

Create infoobjectTypes of characterstic info objects

Based on the options we select while creating characteristic info objects we havefollowing types of character info objects

1. Display Attribute: A display attribute provides supplemental information to acharacteristic.

Time dependent Display attribute Time independent Display attribute

2. Navigational Attribute: A navigational attribute indicates a characteristic-to-characteristic relationship between two characteristics. It provides supplementalinformation about a characteristic and enables navigation from characteristic to

characteristic during a query. Time independent Navigational Attribute and Timedependent navigational attribute .

3. Text4. Hierarchy : version dependent, time dependent , interval hierarchies5. Compound attribute: A compound attribute differentiates a characteristic to make the

characteristic uniquely identifiable. For example, if the same characteristic data fromdifferent source systems mean different things, then we can add the compound attribute

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0SOURSYSTEM (source system ID) to the characteristic; 0SOURSYSTEM is providedwith the Business Content.Different tables created while activating Infoobjects are as follows:

1. Master data table2. Text Table

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SID table4. Hierarchy table5. Attribiute table

Naming convention :Master data table: /BIC(O)/M BIO is for Sap delivered objectsand BIC for customer created objects

Text tables /BIC/TSID tables /BIC/S

Hierarchy tables : /BIC/H/BIC/I Time depedent Hierarchy Structure/BIC/K Hierarchy SID Table

Attribute tables/BIC/P< info object name > Time Independent Display Attribute/BIC/Q< info object name> Time dependent Display attribute/BIC/X TIme Independent Navigational Attribute/BIC/Y< Info object name> Time Dependent Navigational Attribute

Different Data types allowed for creating a characteristic Infoobjects areCHAR, NUMC, DATE, TIME

Different Data types allowed for creating Key figure info object areAmount, Quantity , Number, Interger, date , time