Hierarchy questions

[Former Member]

I have 2 questions related to hierarchy :

1. How do I assign a record say individual product record to an hirarchy e.g.

All Product ->Electrical Products->Fan->4 blade fan , 230 V AC

->Motors-> 3 phase induction motor , 415 V AC

->Mechanical Products->Compressor-> 1000 cc air compressor

2. Also how can i assign attribute to specific node of an hierarchy say Fan in this case .

Guess above can be achieved using taxonomy but how to do it in the hierarchy

Can some one provide the steps , thanks

[Former Member]

Hi Amit,

Replying to ur first query:

This u can do in the hierarchy mode of the data manager.

Note:Although you can view, add, edit and delete the records of a hierarchy table in <u>Record mode</u>, you should usually edit a hierarchy table in <u>Hierarchy mode</u> so that you can view and edit the hierarchical relationships in addition to the other fields of each record.

MDM supports inner node assignments indirectly , while preserving the rule that a hierarchy lookup field be assigned only to a leaf node in the hierarchy – using an internal leaf node .

You can then make inner node assignments to the parent by assigning records to the internal leaf – which acts as a proxy for the parent for assignment purposes – just as you would assign records to any other leaf node .

When you use the Create Internal Leaf command to create an internal

leaf for a parent node, MDM creates a duplicate of the parent node as

its first child

Steps:

To create an internal leaf node for a hierarchy tree item:

1. In the hierarchy tree, select the parent node for which you want to

create an internal leaf.

2. Right-click on the node and choose Create Internal Leaf from the

context menu, or choose Tree > Create Internal Leaf from the main

menu.

3. MDM adds an internal leaf node named “[parent]” as the first child of

the selected node.

NOTE &#9658;&#9658; The name of the internal leaf node is the name of the

parent node in square brackets ([]).

NOTE &#9658;&#9658; You cannot edit the node name nor any of the fields of the

internal leaf, which are auto-populated with the values of the parent

when the internal leaf record is first created. This means that if the

name of the parent changes, the internal leaf will continue to display

the old parent name in square brackets.

NOTE &#9658;&#9658; A normal leaf node cannot be converted into an internal

leaf node nor can an internal leaf node be converted into a normal leaf

node. Instead, you must create a second node, reassign records from

the first node to the second node, and then delete the first node.

Create Internal Leaf Constraints

Operation Constraints

Add

Internal Leaf

&#56256;&#56451; Must be in Hierarchy or Taxonomy mode

&#56256;&#56451; Tree must have focus

&#56256;&#56451; Exactly one node must be selected

&#56256;&#56451; Root node cannot have internal leaf node child

&#56256;&#56451; Node cannot be an alias

&#56256;&#56451; Node cannot have an alias

&#56256;&#56451; Node cannot have a matching set

&#56256;&#56451; Node already has internal leaf

&#56256;&#56451; Node is an internal leaf

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Thanks & Regards

Deepankar

[Former Member]

Hi Amit,

If i understand you properly than you have created hierarachy and now you want to assign records to the hierarchy. If yes than if the hierarchy is made according to the field name than For Ex: Comm Group->ElectricalProducts ->Fan.

For this select the main table, than select the commodity group field in the Search Parameters select electrical products, once you select electrical products you will get many records corresponding to the import you did. select all the records which are fan than in the records details pane in the Hierarchy tab select the hierarchy node you want to assign to the records or a single record.

Its very simple check if it works

[Former Member]

Hi Prasad ,

What you suggested works but I was not looking for this . What I need is say if I got product project for example : 20 W electric bulb . Now I want to assign this product object to the hierarchy/taxonomy say All Products->Electric Product->Bulb . After adding this product to the hierarchy/taxonomy when I go to Hierarchy/Taxonomy view can i see this product (20 W electric bulb ) as

All Products->Electric Product->Bulb->20 W electric bulb

All Products->Electric Product->Bulb->40 W electric bulb ( if there are 2 products)

I do not want to see All Products->Electric Product->Bulb in the hierarachy/taxonomy field that I may have for product objects say 20 W electric bulb , 40 W electric bulb.

I have seen this kind of product being managed in similar way as described and looking at SAP MDM as to how can I achieve this .

Regards,

Amit

[Former Member]

Hi amit,

you can record,

in the hierarchy mode, in the records pane, right click - in the context menu you can find add option, click on that it will create new node in hierarchy pane.

hope this may help you

Regards

srinivas

[Former Member]

Hi Amit

For your 2nd Question:- We cant assign attributes to a node if your table type is hierarchy. Assigning attributes to a particular node is only possible if your table type is taxonomy.

I am not able to under stand your 1st question. Can you elaborate some more on that.

Dilmit Chadha

[Former Member]

1 st questions is , Can I assign say a product record to a node in hierarchy if yes , how to do that . Thanks for the second question's answer .

thanks ,