Extraction of Hierarchy into Flat

File from R/3 and Loading in BW

System

Applies to:
This article applies to SAP R/3 (any version) and SAP B/W (any version).For more information, visit the
Business Intelligence homepage.

Summary
This document discusses the R/3 Tables involved in Extracting Hierarchies (mainly covered Cost Center
Group Hierarchy and Cost Element Group Hierarchy), dump the hierarchy in Flat File in required BW
structure and Load the same to BW.
Author: Anil Suryavansi
Company: Patni Computer Systems
Created on: 15 September 2009

Author Bio

Anil Suryavansi is presently working with Patni Computers Systems Ltd. He has worked
extensively on SAP BIW 3.5, BI 7.0, different versions of R/3 and is mainly responsible for
various BW and R/3 developments.

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Table of Contents
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 3
Cost Element Group Hierarchy in R/3 ................................................................................................................ 3
R/3 Tables Involved ..................................................................................................................................................... 4
Code to Extract the Hierarchy:............................................................................................................................ 6
How Hierarchy is shown at BW Reports:.......................................................................................................... 12
Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 13
Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 13
Disclaimer and Liability Notice .......................................................................................................................... 14

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Introduction
In SAP R/3 for a Group (Ex: Cost Center Group or Cost Element Group), if any of Header node / Sub Node /
Base Node is entered, hierarchy for that node appears. The same functionality can be achieved in B/W by
loading a Single Hierarchy and with maintaining proper Link for an Organizational Unit. There are many
scenarios in which it is required to Extract Hierarchies from R/3 tables, dump Hierarchy in Flat File and
Load into B/W. Using same logic and code All the Group Hierarchies present in R/3 can be Extracted.
For Example:
 Cost Center Group Hierarchy
 Cost Element Group Hierarchy

Cost Element Group Hierarchy in R/3

We can check Cost Element Group in R/3 by T-code KAH3.
For an example, we consider a group KG-ALLCOST:

Now if we check for K585ADEPRE:

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Now if we check for K585AFIXDP:

By above example it is possible to check hierarchy of KG-ALLCOST, K585ADEPRE and K585AFIXDP, as all
these entries are maintained in SETHEADER table.

R/3 Tables Involved

Mainly 3 tables are involved to extract hierarchy:
 SETHEADER
The value of field Set class represents that the hierarchy is related to which field, as value
0102 is for Cost Element Group, 0101 is for Cost Center Group.

If we check Set ID KG-ALLCOST (Higher Node) entry is available in this table.

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 SETNODE
If we check table SETNODE with Set ID KG-ALLCOST, there are 12 Subset Ids available.

If we now take any Subset ID ex. K585ADEPRE and check this as Set ID, there are two Subset
IDs for this.

Now if we take a Subset ID K585AFIXDP and check this as Set ID, there are no entries available
in SETNODE table as it’s a leaf node.
 SETLEAF
If we take K585AFIXDP and check this as Set ID in table SETLEAF, it contains values of Cost
Elements assigned to the node.

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Code to Extract the Hierarchy:

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The above code will generate the file, which is compatible to load in BW in Master Hierarchy Object.

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How Hierarchy is shown at BW Reports:

Now we can Load this extracted Hierarchy in Cost Element Object and create a Hierarchy Node variable
at query level for this hierarchy. In Selection Screen Hierarchy is available to select at different nodes.

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Related Content
Relation between SETNODE, SETLEAF and SETHEADER
Structure of a Flat Hierarchy File for Loading via IDoc
Hierarchy Nodes
Link Nodes
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