How can achieve this (Condition on CHARS at cube or report level)

Question

HI,
My report requirement is to display only values where employee Home Dept Not Equal To Worked Department.
Home Department (CHAR-20) and
Worked Dept (CHAR-20)
For that I created a Info Object in Cube (ZINDICATOR).While data load i want to populate this field with ‘X’ (Flag) if Home Dept = Worked Dept and ‘Y’ (Flag) if Home Dept <> Worked Dept.
So that I can use ZINDICATOR in Query Filter to restrict accordingly..
When I tried to write an if condition in update/Transfer rules it is giving me error...
<b>“Formula element is not allowed here”</b>
How can I achieve my desired results......?

Answer 1

OK sorry,
Are you doing this in an individual update rule or in a start routine?
I suggest start routine. Steps:
1. Add your derived characteristic into the communication structure of the transfer rules (do not have any update in the transfer rules for it)
2. In the update rules have a direct mapping for the characteristic.
3. Create a start routine in the update rule. code should be something like
FIELD-SYMBOLS: <f_dp> TYPE data_package_structure.
LOOP AT DATA_PACKAGE ASSIGNING <f_dp> .
  IF <f_dp>-home_dpt eq <f_dp>-work_dpt.
     <f_dp>-/bic/zindicator = 'X'.
  ELSE.
     <f_dp>-/bic/zindicator = 'Y'.
  ENDIF.
ENDLOOP.
You will need to replace the work_dpt and home_dpt etc. bits with the names of your characteristics.
Regards
Peter