BI 700 - How to preview flat files in an Infopackage

HI Friends,
Just another cry for help _
When extracting flat files, tab 'External Data' of Infopackage provided the option to preview data and to adjust
seperators for decimals and thosuands in BW 3.5. I'm missing this in BI 700. The place I found to adjsut this, is the datasource.,
That means, I've to transport all changes. Is this really the only way?
Please help.
W are on SP21 and GUI Patch 14.
Thanks in Advance
Joe

Hi Pratap & RK,
you're completely right, there is always a workaround, but in the past I had just tp press one button
for receiving my information required, and I'm just not able to understand why somebody removes it (from 3. to 700).
And until we impemenetd BI 700 my understanding purpose of releasing a new software version should be progress and not
regress. It should make work faster and easier. So far my philosopy....
@RK Due to our system settings change of a Da is not allowed in Prod, so I can only preview file defined in
DEV of tarsnported DS.
Thanks and Regards
Joe

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