Possibilities of BW projects documenting – InfoProviders and MultiProviders

Here’s another post from series how to document BW projects. Other posts were dedicated to queries and transformations. 

Even for infoproviders like cube, DSO, SPO, multiproviders we can reuse BW metadata repository. This feature is very simple accessible just by selecting particular InfoProvider and hitting F1 key. A new web browser session is opened with details on particular object:

 

However you won’t see here any assignments of objects. But for this you can hit F1 key on corresponding transformation. 

In case of multiproviders situation is different. It is because there is no assignment of infoobject from underlying cubes provided in BW metadata repository. One possibility I found is to use FM BAPI_MPRO_GETDETAIL. This FM is documenting multiprovider mappings.

You will get nice overview of all dimensions/infoobjects of that multiprovider. Basically what I smost important here is table PARTINFOOBJECTSIDENT where all the assigment of IOs from particlar cubes are happening.

For documenting of other types of BW’s objects use following FMs:

InfoCube - BAPI_CUBE_GETDETAIL

InfoObject Catalog - BAPI_IOBC_GETDETAIL

InfoObject - BAPI_IOBJ_GETDETAIL

InfoPackage - BAPI_IPAK_GETDETAIL

InfoSet - BAPI_ISET_GETDETAIL

DSO - BAPI_ODSO_GETDETAIL