Hierarchy
SAP_BW (Software Component) SAP Business Warehouse⤷
BW-BEX (Application Component) Business Explorer⤷
RSS (Package) BW: General services
Basic Data
| Data Element | RSSAUTHHIERTOPNODE |
| Short Description | BW Reporting: Authorizations for Hierarchies, Top Nodes |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | RS_BOOL | |
| Data Type | CHAR | Character String |
| Length | 1 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 1 | |
| Value Table |
Further Characteristics
| Search Help: Name | ||
| Search Help: Parameters | ||
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| Default Component name | ||
| Change document | ||
| No Input History | ||
| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | Top Nodes |
| Medium | 15 | Hierarchy Top |
| Long | 35 | Use Top of Hierarchy |
| Heading | 35 | Use Top of Hierarchy |
Documentation
Definition
This option allows you to select the top of the hierarchy instead of a node in the hierarchy.
If, for example, you want to authorize a user to work with a hierarchy from the top node, down to a particular level, you can of course authorize the user for the highest node in the hierarchy. If, on the other hand, the hierarchy is used in the query without a filter set for this node, the user is not able to execute the query.
This is because the node that is displayed at the highest level in the hierarchy, is not actually the top of the hierarchy. For example, there is the 'All Other Leaves' node. This is an internal node, but a node in the hierarchy nevertheless, and it is this node that is at the top of the hierarchy, a level higher than the highest node that appears in the hierarchy display. If the hierarchy is used in the query, and the top-level node has not been specified explicitly, the system checks the authorization against the highest node in the hierarchy, meaning the internal node that is not displayed. This option, therefore, allows you to determine the top-level node of the hierarchy yourself, so that you can ensure that users are assigned the appropriate authorizations.
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20130604 |
| SAP Release Created in | 20B |
