SAP ABAP Data Element RSPLS_CR_DATETO (Characteristic Relationships: Validity Date)
Hierarchy
☛ SAP_BW (Software Component) SAP Business Warehouse
   ⤷ BW-PLA (Application Component) Planning
     ⤷ RSPLS (Package) Planning: General Services
Basic Data
Data Element RSPLS_CR_DATETO
Short Description Characteristic Relationships: Validity Date  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type DATS    
Data Type DATS   Date field (YYYYMMDD) stored as char(8) 
Length 8    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 10    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
Search Help: Name    
Search Help: Parameters    
Parameter ID   
Default Component name    
Change document    
No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 to 
Medium 20 Valid Until 
Long 40 Valid Until 
Heading 10 to 
Documentation

Definition

The default key date is a key date that is used in the entire planning model. You can specify a default key date for every real-time InfoCube.

Use

The following options are available for setting a key date:

  • Unspecified (the system date is the default value, if all the relevant InfoCubes have the key date = unspecified)
  • Fixed Date
  • From Variable

All objects that depend on the key date - such as the filter, hierarchies used in the filter or hierarchies used in the 'from' and 'to' values of the copy/distribute functions - can be set to the default key date. When a planning function is executed, the system calculates the default key date as follows:

  • If the aggregation level is created based directly on a real-time InfoCube, the default key date is the same key date that is set for the characteristic relationships of this InfoCube.
  • If the aggregation level has been created on a MultiProvider, all the relevant real-time InfoCubes below the MultiProvider are checked. If all these InfoCubes have the setting 'unspecified', the default key date is the current system date. If one of the real-time enabled InfoCubes has a different setting for its key date, the first InfoCube that returns a specific value is the 'winner'. Variables are evaluated when they are returned.

You also have the option of using a different key date with every time-dependent object.

This can be useful in certain situations. For example: You want to use a specific hierarchy that is to be read with another key date than the master data attributes. Dependencies

Example

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20130604 
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