What is navigational attribute?

Hi All,
What is navigational attribute?please tell me in brief.
How can i use it?
give me deep idea about it

HI
Navigational attr are the attributes that can be used as chars in the query (even as they are not a part of the tranasctional data of the InfoProvider). You can see this link for detailed discussion and example:
Re: Navigate Attribute
Key figures can be attributes, but these will only be display attributes. Compounding is a different concept. When you add a compounding char, it means that the value of the basic char does not mean much on its own, and it needs a compounding char to correctly define it. Like Controlling Area is defined as compounded to Cost Element.
Refer thez thread s talks about nav attr with ex
Re: Navigate Attribute
Navigational Attribute
if u r dealing with a Transitive Attribute. Please see this thread which has a discussion on the same:
Re: Aggregate by attribute and subattribute
Re: Second Level Nav. Attribute without reloading
mahesh

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There are many infoobject form part of dimension in cube and few are part of navigation attribute folder.
Now in the transformation there are some fields which needs to be read from master data depending upon some time characteristic for ex:-0CALMONTH, 0CALDAY. This rule is mapped correctly and data is also being stored correctly as per the specific time period in the cube.
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What will navigation attribute read ? Latest record or speicific records as per time period?
Thanks & Regards,
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Hi Anup,
Let me give you one small example about time dependent attribute work,
let us say we have 0COSTCENTER as time dependent attribute of 0CUSTOMER. Now in your transaction data you have loaded values of 0CUSTOMER and in the query you have used 0CUSTOMER_COSTCENTER attribute.
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1                      123                          500
   2                      125                         450
   3                     126                          900
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Customer      Cost Center       Valid From             Valid To
123                COST1                1st Jan                 15th Jan
   123               COST2                 16th Jan              30 March
123                 COST3                31st March          30 June
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When you use Key date as 20th Jan then the cost center for customer 123 in the query will be shown as COST2. So this assignment of time dependent data is done at runtime only and will not have any impact on underlying data.
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What the big impact change the navigational attribute

I do have infoset contained 3 DSO,
1 of the DSO have 0JOB which we need to set as Navigational Attribute..
The the most impact and precaution that I need to think before take this step..
i know that base on your experience .. hope that you could share with me ..
Point will be assign
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You can set 0JOB as navigational attribute....no probs...........
But........navigational attributes require additinal joins during query runtime........so it has an impact on the performance..........It will slow down the query performance.............moreover if u hav aggregates on the cube.......during attribute change run .....adjustment of aggregates will also slow down.........due to this we should always try to minimize number of navigational attributes..........u also consider how often the query will run.............
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regards
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Hi Dinesh
You mean base characteristic means loading data after creating Navigational attribute?Is it this way,(orelse can u tell me about this base characterstic)
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Hi,
The problem can be due to the mapping in the cube.
Please reactivate your cube.
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Hello Kavitha,
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Hi Garima
Only in case of key figures we cannot change it from display to navigational.
If the info object is a characteristics then in the General tab of the info object if you select 'attribute only' then the iobj would be a display attribute only. If you leave it unmarked then you can use the iobj as a navigational atribute.
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Hi Sapna,
Please try to search...this has been discussed many many times.

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Hi Daniel,
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I have a product characteristic.
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The pros for using navigatyion attribute are quite easy: it will give you far more flexibility.
For example in case of change of hierarchy, you will not need to run realignment.
It simplify in the same way the data loading.
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I have created a DSO and have included Info Objects 0SOLD_TO & 0SHIP_TO. In the Navigational Attributes area, its attributes are not getting displayed even though the attributes are in the info object.
What are the steps needed to perform for it to display there?
Waiting for your reply,
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Hi Shreem,
If you want attributes of any master objects in navigational attributes section, you have make them navigational attributes while defining base info object.
Please follow the below steps.
1) goto RSA1, search for 0SOLD_TO & 0SHIP_TO info objects and open them
2) goto edit mode of info object and goto attributes section.
3) here you will find for every object "DIS" --- this means these attributes are display attributes.
4) If you want to change any attribute to NAV, then click on "Pencil Mark".
5) Now you can see text NAV instead of DIS for that attribute.
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I am having a problem in input query implementation which uses a navigational attribute. I have, for eg, only one char 'customer' in rows; i want to exclude the customers with the status D (deleted) from displaying (Status is nav. attr. of customer). I tried this by restricting in filter, Status D-"exclude". But as soon as I do this, query no longer remains input ready! (I also tried putting the same restriction in Default Values area rather than Filter, but ended with the same result )
I discovered that if, furthermore, I put Status in rows (with the above said restriction still remaining), query is again input ready.
Can't we exclude values in the filter on an input query? I want to know if this is a restriction with IP or a bug?

Hi Gregor,
Thanks for the explanation. But this makes me wonder, because due to this restriction one of the BIG advantages queries had over the planning layouts of BPS, seems to be gone. I mean, using navigational attributes for filtering; if we have to always have a single value restriction on a nav. attr., this will really be restricting. Is it expected that this will be changed in a later SP?
And there is another problem that is coming due to this. When I use the exclude filter and also the nav. attr. Status in rows, then the query becomes input ready, but there are warning messges displaying when the query opens saying -
Characteristic Customer has no master data for "C1"
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etc... (these are the customers with status D). We are on SP15.
Please suggest what should I do to get rid of these messages?
Edited by: Mayank Gupta on Apr 10, 2008

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We are having Navigational Attribute TM Responsible. We have created variable in BEX for it. When we are searching for value selection for this in RSRT, its showing only last name and key part. But If I dont pass any values, and display the result its showing full name. Please find the screen shots.
Customer needs full name to be available for selection in filter in above picture 1.
Please suggest what needs to be done.
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Hi All,
The issue is resolved. Making display as Long text at Infoobject level and at Query display level was not working. Hence I tried to change the display at Multiprovider level as shown below. This fixed the issue.
Right click Navigational attribute -> Provider specific properties
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Initially, the query is having an input variable for fiscper. The query was able to run properly.
When i add a input variable for a navigational attribute to the same query which is based on multiprovider, the fiscper input variable is no longer seen.
So, I removed the global filter for the navigational attribute and it is ok again. I fixed a value for the navigational attribute at filter level is also fine.
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Best regards
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Hi Bass,
Again seems to be a strange issue, if you have two independent characteristic with two different input enabled variables then there is no reason for the variable to not to show up on selection screen.
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Hi Roberto,
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