Characteristic relationship not working

Hi All,
I created a characteristic relationship using Datastore object considering two infoobjects that were available both in my real cube as well as the ods.
Bcos of this i was able to generate(through reporting on cube) a valid combination of these two objects which were there in Datastore but not in Cube.
Yesterday i created this and the query was working fine.After that i deleted the char relationship and recreted again and did some more enhancements like suppressing result rows etc, adding more characteristics in filter.
But the query is not displaying any results now for objects present only in DSO and not in cube.
What could have changed because of which it is not working?
Any help is appreciated.
Ajay

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One reason could be that the characteristic article ZMATART is an attribute from characteristic model ZMATMOD.
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But these are then displayed in the query. 6 combinations in change mode; 2 combinations in display mode. This would not help us.
We would like to see only the planning relevant combinations  6 combinations
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Best regards
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Hi,
set a break-point in the factory method get_instance to check whether the class is called. In the planning modeler make sure that you use an external break-point.
Or use rsrt an change a cell value: Derivation is called in the delta buffer to derive from the fields contained in the aggregation level. So check also that the source fields are contained in the aggregation level or can be derived via a a chain of derivations.
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Putting Milestone in the rows in the query definition is not being hang there (i.e., while creating and saving the query) right?
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sorry, maybe your exist does not work in all cases (implementation of the check method).
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I am using a characteristic relationship (without derivation) on Employee for Cost Center.
I have a cube that contains Key figures for each period for each planned cost center (with employee = #). I am wanting to copy these key figures to the employees within each cost center.
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I need to derive two infoobjects from other one. I know that I have to use a exit class and there implement the ABAP code for especify the derivation.
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set a break-point in the factory method get_instance to check whether the class is called. In the planning modeler make sure that you use an external break-point.
Or use rsrt an change a cell value: Derivation is called in the delta buffer to derive from the fields contained in the aggregation level. So check also that the source fields are contained in the aggregation level or can be derived via a a chain of derivations.
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I am very new to IP and would like to have some help regarding the following with some simple example
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Please find below the examples for characteristic relationship and data slice,
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Data slice - [http://help.sap.com/SAPHELP_NW04s/helpdata/EN/43/1c3d0f31b70701e10000000a422035/frameset.htm]
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