Extract InfoObject data, Text and attributes

Hi guys,
I have a need to extract InfoObjects data for 3rd-party use
I mean the whole snow flakes schema including the 'P' table and all accompanied 'T' tables,
I can do it with database view through SE11, but it is a lot of "dirty" job.
I also know that I can export infoobect data through openhub but it gives me either text or attributes only, I cannot combine them.
Does anyone have an idea on how to accomplish that?
Regards
Shlomi

Hi Sven and Vikram
As I wrote in my first post,
I know that I can create a view in SE11 but my problem was that it is a long process as I have over 30 tables and that's only to 1 Infoobject, I will need to do the same to many Infoobjects.
I was looking for a faster way.
Maybe there is already database view that is created automatically or there is another way without having to analyze all tables and join them manually.
Regards
Shlomi

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Hi Ram,
To understand in a better way little bit of R/3 work would have been helpful.
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BW has used the same modelling concept to keep the text table separate from the msater data table.
It creates to separate data target for master data and text so that two seperate tables can be maintained in BW and you have to load the data in both to see the master as well as text.
Since we have separate master data table and text table in R/3 therefore we have separate data sources as well based on them.
You would like to have you master data table exactly as the master data table of R/3 so you will add attributes in the infoobject 0customer and it will create a P table for 0customer...keep adding attributes to make the columns in the table and to make the exact copy of R/3 table i.e. to bring all the information from R/3 about customer master you add attributes in the 0customer.The data soiurce based on this table in R/3 will contain the fields from the table.
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For text...once you check the text option in infoobject..SAP creates a new table Tcustomer in the background..
Now you have to do the mappings for this as well through the data source based on the text table in R/3.
In some cases the master data table contains text as well and in that case you use the same data source based on this table to create two separate update rules one for master data object and another one for text object and do the mappings accordingly.
In this case you schedule the load to both the target at the same time and data gets loaded.
but for different data sources you will have to schedule the load separately.
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