Installing BI Content DataSources in BI

Use

You use this function to transfer and activate DataSources delivered with BI Content and, where applicable, partner DataSources delivered in their own namespaces. After installing BI Content DataSources you can extract data from all the active DataSources that you have replicated in BI and transfer this data to all connected BI systems.

Activities

The Install DataSources from BI Content screen displays the DataSources in an overview tree. This tree is structured in accordance with the application components assigned to you.

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1. In the application component hierarchy, select the nodes for which you want to install DataSources in the active version. To do this, position the cursor on the node and choose Highlight Subtree.

The DataSources and subtrees below the node are selected.

2. Choose Select Delta.

DataSources where the system found differences between the active and the delivered version (due to changes to the extractor, for example) are highlighted in yellow.

3. To analyze the differences between active and delivered versions of a particular DataSource, select the DataSource and choose Version Comparison. The application log contains further information about the version comparison.

4. To transfer a DataSource from the delivery version to the active version, select it in the overview tree by choosing Highlight Subtree and choose Transfer DataSources.

If an error occurs, the error log appears.

Regardless of whether data has been successfully transferred into the active version, you can call the log by choosing Display Log.

With a metadata upload (when you replicate DataSources in BI), the active version of the DataSource is made known to BI.

When you activate BI Content DataSources, the system overwrites the active customer version with the SAP version.

You can only search for DataSources or other nodes in expanded nodes.

For information about changing the installed DataSources, see Editing DataSources and Application Components.