Creating time attribute views
The prerequisite are as follows:
Replicate the standard table into SAP HANA, that is T005T, T005U, T009, and T009B. We need to ask the basis team to do it for us.
Configure the Generate Time Data function. We will do it ourselves, as described next.
Steps involved in creating a time attribute view are:
Go to the Modeler perspective | Generate Time data or from the Quick Launch.
Fill the details of Generate Time Data as shown in the following screen:
Here I am creating it for year 2014-2015. You can choose the year range for which you want to create the view, and choose the granularity as well accordingly.
Go to the System view and catalog, and see in schema _SYS_BI | table M_TIME_DIMENSION.
Now create a time attribute view with the following details:
Fill the preceding form with the following details:
In the Subtype field, select Time from the drop-down menu
In the Calendar Type field, select Gregorian from the drop-down menu
For the Granularity field, select Date
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