Time dependent infoobjects.

hi sapgurus,
When i am creating the infoobjects,i am facing following can some help with them.
1.Why are very putting attributes as time dependent attributes?
2.What is the importance of HIERARCHIES NOT TIME DEPENDENT AND ALSO INTERVALS PERMITTED IN HIERARCHY.
3.What is the importance of conversion routines?
4.If we write transfer routine then it will be applicable where ever infoobject is created,what is the advantage of that?
Can somebody spare some time help me with this.
thanks in advance.

Hi Nrupal,
1. Time dependant attributes we use if they mean to changeable with time.
2. Intervals, we can choose 2 nodes (at same level).
3. Conversion routine is useful if we want to convert the format (time or date)
ex: date: dd/mm/yyyy but if u give input mm/dd/yyyy it suppose to give an error but u can use conversion routine to convert into internal format.
4. Transfer toutine at IO level for permanant and TR level only for that InfoSource.
Assign points if useful...
Regards,
ARK

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