use of hierarchies in bw workbooks

Use of Hierarchies in BW Workbooks

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Currently, in R3, there is a funds center and a commitment item hierarchy that is being extracted to BW each day. The initial view of the various workbooks does not include these hierarchies. For any workbook that has the funds center or commitment item characteristic, you can add the hierarchy to your report by doing the following steps. This document uses the commitment item hierarchy as an example. 1. Execute the workbook. 2. Once the results are displayed, go to the local view of the query (choose the ‘Change query’

icon from the BW toolbar)

3. Right click on the ‘Commitment item’ characteristic and choose ‘Properties’. Commitment

item could appear under ‘Free Characteristics’ or ‘Rows’ depending on whether you’ve drilled down on commitment item. In the example below, a drilldown by commitment item was performed before adding the hierarchy; therefore it appears in the ‘Rows’.

Change query icon


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4. The Characteristic Properties screen will be displayed. Under the ‘Display Hierarchy’

section of the screen, choose the dropdown box under ‘Hierarchy Name’.

5. The ‘Select Hierarchy’ screen will appear. Scroll down and choose the hierarchy ‘Master Data Hierarchy for FM area COPA’. Click OK.


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6. Click OK again to confirm the use of the hierarchy.

7. Choose the ‘Quit and Use Query’ icon.

Commitment item will now appear with a hierarchy icon above it


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8. Your report will now execute with the hierarchy being active. If you get the message ‘No applicable data found’, refresh your query again. The report will be displayed with the hierarchy if you have commitment item as a drilldown. If you don’t currently have a drilldown by commitment item, add the drilldown to view the hierarchy.

9. Once the data is displayed with the hierarchy (hierarchy active), you can deactivate the

hierarchy. Right click anywhere in the Commitment item column in the results area. Next to ‘Hierarchy Active’ there will be a check mark (see below). Click on Hierarchy active to deactivate the hierarchy. Follow the same steps to reactivate the hierarchy.

10. Once the data is displayed with the hierarchy (hierarchy active), you can expand the

hierarchy to various levels. For example, commitment item hierarchy has 4 levels. If you want to change the view of the hierarchy to see only level 2, right click anywhere in the Commitment item column. Choose ‘Expand Hierarchy’ and choose Level 02.

Note: You can save the workbook to your favorites with the hierarchy active.


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Fund Center Hierarchy To use the fund center hierarchy, follow the steps above on the characteristic funds center. Currently, there is only 1 funds center hierarchy to pick from: Master Data Hierarchy for FM area COPA

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