SAP HANA -Creation of Attribute Views

1. ATTRIBUTE VIEWS
- Yasmin Banu A

2. Introduction to Attribute View:
Attribute Views are dimensions, BW
characteristics or master data
It is used to join a dimension or attribute
view
Its mostly used to model master data like
entities
Ex. Product, Employee, Business Partner
They can be highly re-used and shared in
Analytic and Calculation views

3. Steps to Create Attribute View:
 Step 1 : Open HANA Studio and we have to ensure
we are in Modeler perspective
 Step 2 : Create a new package under the content
folder.
Right-click on the content folder and choose "New" ->
"Package." Fill the fields "Name" and "Description"
and click "OK”.
If the new package doesn’t appear after this, try right-
clicking on the content folder and refreshing

4.  Step 3 : Right click on the created Package and
select the option “New Attribute View”. Give a name
and a description and Choose ‘Finish’

6.  Step 4 : Attribute view will be opened in the HANA
studio editor. Choose "+" sign in "Data Foundation”

7.  Step 5 : Search for table "REGION" and choose it

8.  Step 6 : Add the columns from the REGION table to
output. Right click on the column and select "Add to
Output". Add all 3 columns REGION_ID,
REGION_NAME, SUB_REGION_NAME to the
output.
Once it is done, you will see the selected column in
right side pane

10.  Step 7 : Now choose ‘Semantics’. All 3 columns
appears under Column pane as attribute

11.  Step 8 : The system automatically defines each field
as attributes/measures. In our case, all are attributes.
Every attribute view must have at least one key
attribute. Check the key Box to assign the key

12.  Step 9 : Click on the Save & Activate button to
activate the view

13.  Step 10 : In the "Job log" Pane we can see a
message stating the activation status
 Step 11 : In order to view the data, choose ‘Data
Preview’ button as highlighted

14.  Step 12 : Choose the raw data tab

15. THANK YOU