Webi 4.0 with Bex Query

Hi Experts,
I am making webi report directly hitting bex query. I dont know much about bex may be you can help me understanding this, i have a Default Value (Global Filter date object) Recieved Date, which is also included in Free Characteristics of my bex query. Now while hitting this query Webi is showing three objects in universe outline panel for this Recieved Date , A dimension object Named Recieved Date and when you expand node of that Dimension it shows you another Recieved Date object but it is not a detail object it has a small up errow with it, then 3rd a Key detail objects.
I am not getting why it shows us these 2 extra objects and which object needs to be dragged in to webi query
Can some one help me with this ?

Hi Bilal,
BW is an OLAP environment, the object you are talking about is an infoobject (characteristic).
Now each characteristic comes with extra's, it not just a column in a table (consider it a dimension table in a data warehouse).
For one the characteristic will have an (internal) key against which the actual values are set.
Then there will be one or more text fields associated with the characteristic (short, medium, long),
these will be available in one or more languages.
One of these text fields will be the default to display and you can consider this as the meaningful or alternate key.
When ever there is no masterdata (text) available in the language you make your request in, the key will be shown instead.
So the default blue object is this either or result, the default text to display (or key if not available).
The other ones are the text (irrespective of wether or not it holds data) and the key.
You can use these if you specifically want the text or the key.
So you can imagine there may be more available than the two you described for other characteristics.
Hope this helps,
Marianne

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