The use of InfoSources in BI 7.0

[Former Member]

Hello everyone...

Is it still generally accepted practice to use InfoSources in BI 7.0? What will its use be more of for in BI 7.0? If it IS still needed in BI 7.0, should I define it on the datatarget?

Thank you.

Philips

[former_member186358]

Hi Philips,

Infosource is not mandatory anymore. Scenarios for flexible infosource:

•A flexible infosource is necessary in order to use currency or unit conversion from the source datasource → define infosource as an intermediate structure

•You can use a flexible infosource as a uniform source for several targets; the infosource can be the target from different sources.

So we can use an InfoSource as an optional structure between a transformation and another transformation. This is necessary, for example, to consolidate several sources into several targets or to use InfoObject-based information.

Note: for ‘direct’ InfoSources (For master data updates), there is no difference between ‘old’ and ‘new’ infosource, i.e. you can define a transformation as well as transfer rules.

Please assign points if it is useful.

Regards,

Anil

[Former Member]

Hi,

In BI 7.0, infosource is used if there is more than one target to be updated from the same data source.

Thanks & Best Regards,

Rajani