Question Re: INFO AREA in Technology Q&A

INFO AREA

Former Member — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:07:24 GMT

hai friends,

i want the definitions of INFO AREA.. and INFO SOURCE and INFO PROVIDER..

plz help me...

thanks

with regards

babu

Re: INFO AREA

Former Member — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:14:27 GMT

hi,

infoarea is a object under which u create your infoobject and data target such as

cube ,ods,multiprovider etc.

in other words it is a collection of various bi object.

infosource is link between source and target.it coatnin the mapping of source and target fields.

infoprovider is an object on which reporting is done.It can be either data target such as cube ods or master data object or multiprovider,infoset etc.

regards

pls assign points if helpful.

Re: INFO AREA

Former Member — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:17:51 GMT

See this

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/80/1a6406e07211d2acb80000e829fbfe/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/90/64553c845ba02de10000000a114084/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/4d/c3cd3a9ac2cc6ce10000000a114084/frameset.htm

Hope this helps

Cheers

N Ganesh

Re: INFO AREA

Former Member — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:18:26 GMT

Info Source :

An InfoSource is a quantity of information that logically belongs together, summarized into a single unit. InfoSources contain either transaction data or master data (attributes, texts and hierarchies).

The structure in which these are stored is called a communication structure.

There are basically two types of InfoSources.

InfoSources with flexible updating

Info Sources with direct updating

Check this for infoprovider,

Re: INFO AREA

Former Member — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:19:57 GMT

Prakash,

Infoarea is used to organize the objects created in the AWB. It is just like managing files in folders.

Infosource is a structure like thing used in the data transfer.

Infoprovider is one which providers data for reporting but need not be a data target.

Re: INFO AREA

Former Member — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:22:18 GMT

info provider..

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/28/4c553c42360a40e10000000a114084/

infosource

infosource definition is nothing but the communication structure that you design to map to the transfer structure. Logically grouped objects in the infosource basically reflect the the data provider to which you would be loading the data thru the infosource. So most of the time the structure of the infosource would be the structure (similar) of the data provider. Just as all the logical objects would relate to a dimension, the same would be true to infsource too.

hope it helpss...

cheers.

Re: INFO AREA

Former Member — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:22:20 GMT

Infoarea is like a folder to keep all relevant objects under one roof

Infosource is a source of information to supply data from data source to data target.

Infoprovider is a data storing object like our tables but in a different format and structure..which provides information based on your query.

Hope it helps

Thanks

Teja