Creating Master Data from a transactional text source

Question

hi experts, my internal bw expert is still out and I need help again.
We have a table in bw whose values we are going to push into a DSO so that we can create some reporting on it.  However, some of the characteristics on this table exist only as text (for example, end_user).  In order to make the reporting meaningful I need to
1) Put the unique values into an infoobject.
2) Create a routine that when I load the transactional values from the table to perform an abap lookup on the master data to find the right "key" value.
Can anyone point me to a guide that can help me out with these tasks?

Answer 1

I will first note that best practices are to not put descriptions into DSO's.   That said, this is how you can do it.
Things to change... you'll want to go against the Text table instead of the attribute table which can be found on the Master Data tab of the InfoObject.  Obviously change the name of the fields and variables....
GLOBAL Section of Start Routine / Transformation
    TYPES : BEGIN OF typ_compcode,
                  comp_code TYPE /bi0/pcomp_code-comp_code,
                  country   TYPE /bi0/pcomp_code-country,
           END OF typ_compcode.
    DATA :
           lt_compcode  TYPE HASHED TABLE OF typ_compcode WITH UNIQUE KEY comp_code,
           lwa_compcode TYPE typ_compcode.
START ROUTINE
      SELECT  COMP_CODE
          COUNTRY
      FROM /BI0/PCOMP_CODE INTO TABLE lt_compcode
     FOR ALL ENTRIES IN SOURCE_PACKAGE
      WHERE COMP_CODE      = SOURCE_PACKAGE-COMP_CODE
AND language = 'EN' if language dependant and  date if time dependant.
Transformation Rule
READ TABLE LT_COMPCODE INTO LWA_COMPCODE
              WITH TABLE KEY COMP_CODE = SOURCE_FIELD-COMP_CODE.
RESULT = LWA_COMPCODE-country.