Time dependent issues

The R3 side doesn't have the FROMDATE and TODATE to record the changes, but BW has the FROMDATE and TODATE when the attributes are checked as time-dependent.
Do the time-dependent attributes depend on the master data load to record the changes to the FROMDATE and TODATE? How does BW record the changes for the time-dependent attributes?
What happens if the BW database that stores the master data is corrupt; this is assuming that there is no backup?
How would you recover the FROMDATE and TODATE time-dependent attributes? If you were to reload all over again, the history of the changes to the attributes would be the most recent changes. Is this correct?

this is how the BI handles Time dependent MD with 0costcenter
11111- edna - 01/01/1000 - 12/31/9999 - this is the intial masterdata entry created when you are made a mgr for 11111.
Now you are promoted and are allocated to 22222, so the entry in R/3 would be
22222 - edna - 01/01/2007 - 12/31/999. if you still hold both the costcenters the entries will remain same. but if i was allocated to costcenter 11111, then the entry would be
11111- edna - 01/01/1000 - 12/31/2006
11111- voodi - 01/01/1000 - 12/31/9999
Now thats where the key date comes into picture when somebody runs the report for costcenter 11111 in 2005, you will still be shown as the mgr of the CC, depending on the validity period of the CC under ur name. This still highlights the validity period, in plain BI lang FROM/TO dates that have to be populated from the source system that would have been created/changed when a value is entered into the system. I'm not sure or aware of any way, BI can mysteriously know the validity periods with no business logic or rule to fill in the FROM/TO dates int he masterdata.
your reply does not really clarify my thought process.
Not sure If I can ever clarify ur thought process.
When the tough gets going, you would normally point me to a link
I only point to link when people are not clear abt the basic understanding of the issue they want to discuss. FYI - the link doesnt refer to flat file loads (if thats what you could make out from the link).
sure i didnt clarify ur thought process:)

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Time Dependency issue

Hi Gurus,
                 I have User master data Info Object, and time dependency User group as navigational attribute. I checked navigational attributes in Info Cubes and MulitProviders. For testing purpose we have changed the validity period of User group like for example :
Output of Master Data.
__User       UserGRP      Validity From    Validity To__
MARKD   OCV             01/01/2010   06/17/2010
MARKD   PSV              06/18/2010 12/31/9999
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Thanks
Ganesh Reddy.

Hi Ganesh,
The time dependant objects display the result based on key date.
By default the key date is current date.
So it will display the value of user group as of today in the whole data set.
If you set the key date to past date it will set the output of whole data set as on that day.
If you want it to be varying, you will have to add a user group field in the cube and populate it using ABAP lookuo on user master data.
-Vikram

Regarding performance issue in time dependent hierarchie.

hai
we are loading time dependent hierarchies from flatfile to bw,it is weekely load,we have nearly one million records loaded,we got an issues regarding change of these hierarchies timely.when ever there occurs a change in hierarchy a new row is added to the table,it is degrading the performance,can any one of you please suggest how to over come performance related issues regarding time dependent hierarchies.
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hello deven,
if you are only focusing on your application's performance
on the aspect of usability i.e. less waiting time, fast
response UI, i would personally suggest you to use AJAX.
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could work on the data presented in pieces (i.e. asynchronously).
anyway try googling for AJAX...
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jo

Issue making Cost Center Hierarchy Time Dependent

Hi,
We have three hierarchies on top of cost center and cost center was not time-dependent. There is a new requirement to make one of the hierarchies time dependent. To faclitate it, I changed the hierarchy property in cost center infoobject to "Hierarchy structure is time-dependent" and then loaded the hierarchy.It took the validity dates of 1.1.1000 to 31.12.999. A costcenter was changed from one node to another in ECC and was extracted into BI. As time-dependency is set, I thought that node will have two entries now one with validity period 1.1.1000 to 30.10.2009 and another with 31.10.2009 to 31.12.999. But instead the hierarchy was overwritten and only the latest change is refelcted.
Can someone please help in figuring out the issue. Should some change be done in ECC for time-dependency to reflect.
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Achyuta

Hey Achyuta,
The hierarchy needs to be time dependent in the source system and then the datasource for the time dependent hierarchy would then need to be replicated again. You'll know if it's right after the replication if you view the datasource in BW and the Data is Time Dependent check box is checked on the General Info Tab. Once the datasource is time-dependent, loads should populate the DateTo and DateFrom as you expect. Consult your R/3 expert if you need help over on the source system side.
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Validity period merging issue for time dependent master data

Hello All,
I am trying to load the data from DSO ZDSO1 to Master data object ZCASE1. Attribute "ZATR1" of ZCASE1 is the time dependent attribute of ZCASE1.
ZDSO1 contains "Changed On" field which defines the "Valid From" period for attribute "ZATR1" of case ZCASE1.
For eg.
ZDSO1 contains below records for Case 'C1':
Case ID     Changed On ZATR1
C1              01.01.2014     01
C1              02.01.2014     01
C1              02.15.2014     07
C1              02.17.2014     07
My transformation from ZDSO1 to infoobject ZCASE1 contains below mapping:
Case ID - Direct Mapping - ZCASE1 object
Constant value '12/31/'9999' - VALID TO field
Changed on - Direct Mapping - DATE FROM field
ZATR1 - Direct Mappint - ZATR1 object
After loading the data from ZDSO1 to ZCASE1 below results are obtained:
Case ID     VALID FROM VALID TO   ZATR1
C1             01.01.1000    12.31.2013 BLANK
C1             01.01.2014    01.31.2014 01
C1             02.01.2014    02.14.2014 01
C1             02.15.2014    12.31.9999 07
Time-Dependency is define correctly however my concern is why second and third records were not merged together. Instead of having four records, I should have ideally received THREE records. As shown above, third and fourth record (value 07) from ZDSO1 are merged into SINGLE record in infoobject ZCASE1.
For the subsequent data, it again does the same thing.
For eg. If I receive below Delta record from ZDSO1:
C1   03.01.2014 07
I get FIVE records in infoobject ZATR1 as shown below:
Case ID     VALID FROM VALID TO   ZATR1
C1             01.01.1000    12.31.2013 BLANK
C1             01.01.2014    01.31.2014 01
C1             02.01.2014    02.14.2014 01
C1             02.15.2014    02.28.2014 07
C1             03.01.2014    12.31.9999 07
In my understanding, BW system should have merged this Delta record with the last record present in infoobject because both the records have same ZATR1 value.
I would really appreciate your help/suggestions to understand/resolve this issue.
Thank You,
Nilima

Hey Arun,
While there wasn't any other time-dependent attribute apart from ZATR1, there is another time-independent attribute ZATR2 of ZCASE1 whose value was changed and hence somehow system was not able to merge the validity range.
Thank You.
Nilima

Issue while creating a heirarchy using Hierarchy Structure Time dependent

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Navigational attribute issue-time dependent

Hi all,
I am working with 0PA_C01, I included some additional navigational attribute(time dependent )to 0employee, but when i am checking all these navigational attribute at cube level or Report , i can find only the latest values ,for eg i added Designation as a time dependent navigational attribute for 0employee, and the designation for a employee is changing after 12.2008 from VP to SVP ,at the cube and also in the report i can find only the latest designation for all the calmonth ie before 12.2008 also as SVP .
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Sandhya

Dear Sandya,
Results correct only in your report. Time dependent attributes displyas data based on keydate. if no key date specified, system takes current date as key date and displays data.
So in your case latest data displaying. If you want to see any historic designations, you need to specify key date, which shold fall into that particular range.
Create a User entry variable for keydate and use.
Key date
Each query has a key date. For time-dependent data, the key date determines the time for which the data is selected. The default key date value is the date on which the query is executed, that is <Today>.
 1. Click on the Key Date field. A dialog box with a calendar appears for you to select your key date.
 2. Select a date from the calendar. If you select 01.01.1999 for example, time-dependent data is read from the 01.01.1999.
Note
The key date applies only to time-dependent data.
Check: [Query Properties|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/Helpdata/EN/07/0ab63c71f41d5ce10000000a114084/frameset.htm]
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Time-dependent Vendor Master & Handling Special Characters

Hi,
I need to extract time-dependent Vendor Master.
1. The data source for 0VENDOR does not have fields to hold the valid date range.
2. Does the Master data in R/3 for Vendors will hold the valid date range?
3. The text for 0VENDOR provides time-dependent, but how to map the valid from and valid to fields?
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Hi Everyone,
Thanks for inputs on Special characters issue...
Finally resolved with below piece of code in the start routine:
DATA: FLAG,
 OFF TYPE I,
 LEN TYPE I VALUE 1,
 ALLOWED_CHAR(95) VALUE
'0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ`~!@#$%^&*()-_=+ ' &
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz:;<>,.?/|\{}[]"'''.
CONSTANTS: C_CHAR VALUE '-'.
LOOP AT DATA_PACKAGE WHERE NOT /BIC/ZI_DESC IS INITIAL .
 DO.
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Time-dependent BW hierarchies in Analysis for OLAP

Hi all,
We are using time-dependent hierarchies in combination with a key date variable.
Tools used: Query designer based on SAP BW 7.4 and BO 4.0.
The following steps are executed:
Report is executed and key date is prompted
According to the key date, the correct time-dependent organisation hierarchy will be used in drill-down
Bring up variable screen again and select different key date
The drill-down changes according to the now correct time-dependent organisation hierarchy
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Whenever I run through this scenario and confirm the updated key date, the following error is displayed:
cube.get.dimension.info.runtime.error : java.lang.IllegalStateException: There is no default hierarchy for dimension [ORG].
In the user guide I don't find any specifics about the hierarchies and since it works in all the other applications, I wonder where the error is coming from. I also could not find it anywhere else in the forum.
Has anyone experienced the same error or any suggestions?

Hi Peter,
This issue is captured in SAP Note 1941865. Resolved in 4.0 (8.5, 9.2 or SP10) and 4.1 (1.6 or SP03).
Symptom
In BI 4.1, Analysis for OLAP returns errors similar to:"An error occurred in the MDAS service while processing a request from Analysis, edition for OLAP. Try the operation again. If the problem persists, please contact your administrator. (AOC00041)" and/or "cube.get.dimension.info.runtime.error: java.lang.IllegalStateException: There is no default hierarchy for dimension [DIMENSIONNAME]"
The BW Query the AOLAP workspace is created against has 2 different hierarchies that have the same text description
Environment
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.1
Analysis, edition for OLAP
Reproducing the Issue
In CMC, create an OLAP BICS connection to a multi provider
Connect to BI launchpad and launch Analysis, edition for OLAP.
Use the connection to create a new workspace.
The error is observed
Cause
This issue has been logged as a defect under ADAPT01720287 for BI4.0 and ADAPT01713663 for BI4.1
Resolution
A fix for this issue is included in the following maintenance releases:
BI4.0:
Patch 8.5
Patch 9.2
Support Pack 10
BI4.1:
Patch 1.6
Support Pack 03

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Message was edited by: Birgit Laux

Birgit,
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Hi, Experts,
I tried to load CO Master Data from R/3, I got some issues as follow:
1. In the InfoPackage creating, what is the meaning of Time-Dependent Data, How can I know what are the properly value range I should entry.
2. After I excuted the Infopackage, I got red color in Monitor, I checked the PSA, some of the data's status were green, some were red which the system said that the records time overlapped, but I couldn't verify this is true anymore. Could you please give me some idea?
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Bye
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Hi All,
I have an extractor that extracts data with DATEFROM and DATETO fo rthe time dependent HR employee related data for managers. But when it extracts into BI and loaded to Info Object the DATEFROM is not the same as what is extracted, it is 01/01/1000 instead of record specific.
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Alex.

Beekay,
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