How to create a Virtual provider in BI 7.0?

Question

Hi friends!
I need create a virtualprovider (with SCM source system), but I find the option 'Create Virtual Provider'  in the context menu only when the infosource is 3.x
How can I do it in 7.x?
Thanks in advance!
Edited by: SSap on Oct 28, 2009 9:11 PM

Answer 1

1.How can I do it in 7.x?
In BI7, just right click on any infoarea, and choose create 'virtual provider'. For direct access, you choose Virtual Provider with 'direct access'. There's an option to use the old R/3 infosource. What this means is that you can create an infosource with transfer rules and such, and when you create the virtual infoprovider, it will use the structure in the infosource automatically and the flow of data is automatically link R/3 with the transfer rules and the virtual infoprovider. Note that no update rules exist with this kind of setup.
In BI7 you have a more flexible approach in that you can create a transformation to configure the 'transfer logic' of your virtual infoprovideralong with start routine, end routine or any other transformation technique visible with using a transformation rule.
But using BI7 setup, you need to create a sort of 'pseudo' DTP, which doesn't actually do anything, meaning you do not 'execute' it to start a data transfer.
After all is done, you need to right click on the virtual infoprovider and choose 'Activate Direct Access'. If you use Infosource, go to the Infosource tab, and choose the infosource. If you're using BI7 setup, choose the DTP related to the transformation and save it.
a virtual infoprovider with direct access is really slow if you have a lot of records transmitting between the remote function calls.
Hope this helps
Manjula