Remove double records during data upload from one InfoCube to another

Question

Dear Experts
We have transactional financial data available in an InfoCube including cummulated values by period . Some companys have 12 reporting periods (0FISCPER3) and some companys have 16 periods (but all 16 periods are not always filled) . The data must be prepared for a consolidation system which expects only 12 periods. Therefore I bulit up a routine with the following logik:
If period > 12, result = 12, else result = source field.
But as the data target is (must be) an InfoCube the new values with reporting period 12 are not overwritten, but summarised instead. This means the original records with period 12 and the new records - see example:
Records before transformation:
Period   Amount
12          100
13           120
Records after transformation in the InfoCube:
Period   Amount
12          100
12           120
This would lead to the following aggregation:
Period   Amount
12          240
But as the values per period are cummulated, the consolidation system only needs the last period. So there should be only  one record left in the InfoCube:
Period   Amount
12           120
Is it possible to delete dublicate records or do you have any other idea to to keep only the record with the last period (e.g. period 13) and to assign the value 12?
Thanks a lot in advance for your help!
Regards
Marco

Answer 1

Hi,
You have two options here, you can put DSO in between the Datasource and infocube, and load the delta using the change log.
Second is use delete the overlapping request from the infocube, it will delete the previuos requests and load the new request.
Check the below article:
[Automatic Deletion of Similar or Identical Requests from InfoCube after Update|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/e0431c48-5ba4-2c10-eab6-fc91a5fc2719]
Hope this helps...
Rgs,
Ravikanth