Navigational Attribute and Hierarchy

Hi All,
We are loading customer master from DB Connect to infoobject "ZCUSTID". Now Company type description (ZCMPINDS) is Navigational Attribute of ZCUSTID. And we are loading flat file hierarchy for ZCMPINDS with two external characteristics (ZMKTSEG and ZINDSEG).
We have created test query and we maintained necessary setting for Hierarchy but we are not able to drill down to hierarchy for ZCUSTID. Mainly we are not able to see ZINDSEG and ZMKTSEG in report.
Kindly suggest some solution.
Regards,
Sohil Shah.

Hi Sohil,
In Query designer : right click on ZCUSTID, there you have to select attributes of ZCUSTID ,find ZINDSEG and ZMKTSEG select them .
Hope it heps.......
Thanks
chandra sekhar

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