5.

2 Creation of Datasources- Attribute Data

Use: You can load data from flat files (CSV) into BW Info Object attributes using flat file datasource.

Procedure:
1. Log onto the BI system.

2. Go to Tcode RSA1. Start the Data Warehousing Workbench in the SAP menu by choosing
Modeling ® Data Warehousing Workbench: Modeling.
3. Various functional areas are displayed at the left in the Data Warehousing Workbench. In
the functional area Modeling you can display different views on the objects used in the
Data Warehouse, such as InfoProviders and InfoObjects. These views show the objects in
a tree.
4. Under modeling, choose Datasources . All the application components for the
respective source systems are displayed.

5. Choose the FLAT_FILE source system as shown below.

6. Create the Application component in “Data Sources”

From the context menu of Data Sources, Select “Create Application Component”
7. Right Click on the application component and click on Create datasource.

8. Following window will open up and then enter the datasource name and ‘data type of
the Datasource’ that you want to create. In this case the type of data source is ‘Master
Data Attributes’. The source system will be populated automatically

9. Fill the Short medium and long description on the ‘General Info.’ Tab.
10. Go to the extraction tab
a. Set Adapter value as ‘Load text-type from local workstation’.
b. Give the file location that you want to upload in the File Name section.
c. put ‘1’ in the Header rows to be ignored field as this will ignore the 1 row in the flat
file and load the rest.
d. Change the data format field to ‘Separated with a separator’.
e. Enter comma (,) as the data separator.
11. Go to the proposals tab and click on Load Example data. Following screen will be
displayed with the Data types and other details in the proposal area.
12. Click on the Fields tab and enter info objects for the fields 1,2 and 3 and press enter.

13. Click on copy in the subsequent pop up.

14. Click on activate to activate the datasource.

 15. Click on Preview tab and then read preview data.

Conclusion: Datasource of type master data is created