Network View

General Visualizations in Network View

Data Flows can be shown as a tree view and as a network. You can easily switch between the different layouts with the tabs "Tree View" and "Network". The standard layout of Data Flows can be enhanced by additional information. For some of them (DTP+InfoPackage Filter, Look-Ups) the System Scout is required. Also, comments can only be shown in case the Docu Performer is licensed.

Nodes

Entity nodes

Entity nodes in the Data Flow are shown with the icon of the related entity type and the technical name in the first row. For HANA entities you can see the Package or Path in the second row (written italics). For ABAP CDS entities in the second row (written italics) you can see the DDIC View name. For HANA and ABAP CDS entities, the third row shows the description of the entities. BW and DDIC nodes have their description in the second row.
If an entity is not synchronized you can see this in the icon in the node (for more details see Unsynchronized Entities).

Transformation nodes

In the nodes of transformations, you can find some more details after you started one of the analysis functions (see Data Flow Analysis).

Toolbar Items

In the following, the toolbar and the functionalities are explained:

• It is possible to show/hide a grid in the background of the Data Flow 

  

  and to make the entities snap to the grid

  

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• You can zoom in 

  

  or out 

  

  by pressing the respective button in the toolbar, using your scroll wheel while pressing down Ctrl, or by using the zoom slider in the bottom right corner.
  Furthermore, you can reset the zoom to the default setting

  

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• The function of your cursor can be changed from the standard pointer 

  

  to the pan mode

  

  , to navigate the whole data flow.

• The Layout of the Data Flow can be optimized 

  

  and the width of the nodes can be chosen 

  

  in the Network View.

• You can change the display of Transformations from nods to small icons 

  

  and you are able to expand 

  

  or collapse 

  

  additional information related to the Transformations.
  This especially makes sense after you started a Data Flow Analysis before.

• You can show and hide the description of the nodes 

  

  in the network view.

• The System Scout functionalities Look-Up Analysis 

  

  and Show DTPs and InfoPackages incl. Filters 

  

  are available in the Data Flow.

• :mapping_analysis: loads the mapping of all used InfoObjects and Fields of the analyzed object and activates the Mapping View.

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   loads the sub-types of the BW entities to the Network View.

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  activates or deactivates the display of the whole flow of the selected entity in the Data Flow.

• You can access the Data Flow Layer maintenance

  

  , toggle the display of the Layer 

  

  and toggle if the Layer background should be colored too

  

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• :dataflow_upwords:  loads superordinate objects like Queries, BO reports or SAC entities to the Data Flow.

• :dataflow_down: loads the data flows of all objects below the analyzed object across connectors.

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  exports the presentation of the current Data Flow as Word, PowerPoint, PDF, Image or directly print it.

• With

  

   the Layer Assignment in the Network View is refreshed.