april 2017.

SAP BW Visio Shapes

I want to document a BW data model and searched for a Microsoft Visio shape, but I found nothing. So I build my own Visio shapes. At the moment there are the following types available:

  • DataSource
  • Transformation
  • DataStoreObject
  • InfoCube
  • SPO
  • MultiProvider
  • DTP
  • InfoSource
  • OpenHub
  • Query

I used them in my last blogpost about Copy Queries to a new MultiProvider.

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SAP BW Copy Queries to a new MultiProvider

In my current project, we want to separate the current MultiProvider with VirtualProvider underneath into one MultiProvider with VirtualProvider and one MultiProvider without VirtualProvider. This step is necessary, because we receive a lot of data and don't want to push all these data through the VirtualProvider. The VirtualProvider only add one field which we haven't got in our InfoCubes and it isn't necessary in all queries just a few.

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