Information Composer

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Information Composer

Log on to SAP Information Composer

B4 open the IC we need to run GO file first

Uploading Data into HANA DB:

Log on to Information Composer

Click on Upload

We can upload data in two ways


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1) Data from File system

Note:- File should be is in the form of .CSV, .XLS, .XLSX

We an upload 5 million cells at a time

Select option for Update with Column Headers

2) Data from Clipboard

Copy the data and paste our data

We an upload 5 million cells at a time

Select option for Update with Column Headers

EX #1: load data by using Source File System


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Select file name and upload with headers

EX #2: load data by using Clipboard

Select required data copy it and paste into data(space)


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Note:-

After uploading file into HANA DB. Let us consider If we add one or more

records. We want to update into HANA DB.

Click on our table in MY DATA


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Select Refresh and select same file to upload

6 rows of 6

Click on update


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6 rows of 7

Steps for uploading data into HANA DB

Log on to Ic

Click on Upload and click on start

Provide File name


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We will get preview of file

If the file contains repeated values and same meaning values (Ex: USA and

United States Of America)

We need to cleanse the values by merging them into single name

Click on Cleanse Data

We need to merge USA and United States Of America as one file and UK and

United Kingdom as single file


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Note:If we have repeated data in multiple columns we can select columns as shown

below


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Classify columns which contains NUMBER format as Attributes and Measures


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Provide name and description If we want to share our table to other users we can

select option Share this data with other users

We will get message like successfully loaded

Modeling Data(Compose)


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After uploading data we need to create Information Views

Information Views are nothing but Calculated views

Click on Compose and start

Select File/Attribute/Analytic/Calculated for Source A

Select File/Attribute/Analytic/Calculated for Source B


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Combine A, B with (Union/Join(Inner/Outer(Left/Right))) By default sys will use INNER JOIN operation to combine two source


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If you want to check the combine operation click on Create your own Combine

Settings

If we want to change Combine operation click on Create your own Combine

Settings


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Select combine operation

1) JOIN

a) Right Outer Join

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b) Left Outer Join


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2) Union


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Refine the data

1) Manage Fields

Here we can manage fields for displaying and hiding

2) Adding Custom Calculated(Attibute/Measure)


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We can create Attibute/measure fields


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EX:Creating Attribute Column called Country_Lable

EX: Create Measure Column called Revenue

Provide name

Select Share option If requires

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