View Browser
Application component: View Browser
App type: Transactional
Scope items: Analytics for Production Unit - Plan/Actual Production Cost|Analytics for Sales - Central Stock with Returns
Description:  SAP S/4HANA key users have to search for CDS views, be it CDS views released by SAP or customized CDS view. The key user responsible for building data models can then use the View Browser app to get a list of all available CDS views along with the details, such as Category, View Types, Dimensions and Measures, Annotations, supported capabilities, and the modeling pattern of the CDS views. The key user can also use various search options, such as descriptions, application components, and tables used in building the CDS views to search for CDS views. You can use this app to search for CDS views and analyze the CDS view's data fields. This application displays all of the CDS views and underlying artifacts in tables. By default, the content views are organized by view name. You can also use the drop-down feature to filter the values in each column. The advantage of using this app instead of the Custom Analytical Query app is that the latter displays only released analytical queries, but the View Browser app displays all the CDS views that were released by SAP, as well as custom SAP views, irrespective of draft or released status. However, you can use the Custom Analytical Query app to create, save, modify, and publish CDS views to catalogs. You cannot alter or modify the CDS views created by SAP. Recommendation We recommend using CDS views delivered by SAP with the status Released. The SAP CDS views with statusesNot Released and Deprecated may be changed or deleted and may not be available to customers. 
Key features:  The following functions are available:   Views: Displays the number of all Core Data Services (CDS) views that are available in the system. The numbers above each view type (Basic, Composite, Consumption, Extension, Transactional, and Undefined) represent the number of views. The number displayed in the Views row and in the toolbar is the total number of CDS views available in the system. The number changes in the tool bar depending on the chosen view type.    Variants: SAP delivers these standard variants:   Standard   All Views   Favorite Views   Released Views for Cloud Development   Released Views for Key Users   Virtual Data Model Views     You can use the variants delivered by SAP to create and your own variants. You do this by choosing Save As and entering a name of your choice. By default, all variants are marked as favorites. You can set any variant as the default. To do so, choose Manage and then choose the radio button from the Default column for the variant.  If you've an existing variant from a previous release that is from a favorites list, then the new variant delivered by SAP also has to be marked as a favorite.    CDS View Status: The columns Key User Status and Cloud Development Status displays the release status of the selected CDS view. The first relevant for key user applications (key user extensibility) and the second for any custom developments in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud ABAP Environment (developer extensibility). For details about the release status for CDS views, see Stability Contract for System-Internal Use (C1). In general, the SAP released CDS views have the status: Released, Not Released, Deprecated and the custom CDS views have the status: Draft or Published. To enable this column, choose Settings  Column   Status.  The Key User Status column displays the status of the custom CDS views. All of the CDS views start with YY1, regardless of their status. You can filter the CDS views based on the status by choosing Settings  Filter. Select Draft Status and choose Yes/No.  Suppose that a published custom CDS view or custom analytical query is modified and saved as draft in the Custom CDS View app. Then the custome CDS view, now has 2 statuses, Published and Draft. In such cases, the View Browser app displays the details of the published custom CDS view in the Key User Status column. The check mark next to the draft status column indicates that the published custom CDS view is also a draft.    Search: Search for views, view types, view categories, tables, view descriptions, view column names, annotations, or user-added tags. The search results for a CDS view display the CDS view status, if this is enabled in Settings. If the CDS view is in draft status and published status, then the View Status fields are displayed as Published. Draft Status has a check mark next to it.  You can also search for CDS views based on annotations. To search for CDS views with specific annotations, use the syntax @:. For example, @VDM.VIEWTYPE:#BASIC lists all the CDS views with annotation VDM.VIEWTYPE” having value #BASIC. You can also search for CDS views that match specific supported capability. For example, if you type CDS_Modeling_Data_Source in the search bar, the search results displays all the CDS views with supported capability, CDS_Modeling_Data_Source.   Alternative Search:  Alternative search is an extended search that allows you to search for CDS views based on tables, columns, annotations, and tags. You can choose to search for CDS views separately in tables and columns or both.  However, to search for CDS views in annotations, you must first select the annotation from the list. Then you must enter or select any value displayed in the selected annotation. The search query looks for CDS views in the selected annotation and value. If the annotation value is blank, the search results are a list of all possible CDS views that match the annotation and all the associated values of the selected annotation. To search for CDS views in tags, choose Tags and then enter the tag value.  Step-by-step video explaining Alternative Search    Open this video in a new window The search results are displayed in Matched in column and each result is prefixed with “Table:”, “Column:” and “Annotation:” for clarity.    Personalize and Tag Views: Create your own tags for CDS views. Select a view and then choose Manage Tags. You can add multiple tags to the selected view. Use commas to separate the tags. The number of tags with which a view is associated is displayed as a link. Select the link to manage the tags. You can delete the tag by choosing Delete.    Show Content: Displays a data preview of released analytical queries and customer created analytical queries. The Show Content button for the selected CDS view displays all the relevant information. A dialog box prompts you to provide input parameters for the selected view, if necessary. The analytical queries are displayed using Web Dynpro Grid.   Mark as Favorite: Add views or mark views as your favorites. Select the checkbox for a view and select the Favorite icon.   Annotations: Display a list of properties used by the selected CDS view. One view can have multiple annotations.   Cross Reference: Display all the CDS views and tables used by the selected view. The CDS views are highlighted and you can navigate to other views and tables from them. The Release Status column displays the CDS view status same as Key User Development. You can search for further views and tables using the Search button that is available on the Cross Reference tab. The search results display all the views and tables, except for views and tables whose relationship is Association. In other words, the search option doesn't find views or tables with unused associations.   View Definition: Displays the column names, data elements, relevant definitions, and other parameters of the selected view.   Managing Analytical Queries from View Browser   Creating Analytical Query You can create an analytical query for customer queries and queries released by SAP. In other words, you can create analytical queries only for those queries that have the status Released and for the Cube/Dimension category type. Select a query and choose Create Analytical Query. Enter a query name and select a view from the dropdown list. This lets you create an analytical query from the View Browser app that can be used by multiple users.   Opening an Analytical Query You can open the analytical queries using the Create Analytical Query app from the View Browser app. To do so, choose an analytical query that has the status Released and the Query category type. Choose Open in Analytical Query from the  icon. You can also open analytical queries created by customers.     Copying analytical query data to a different view You can also copy analytical query to a different view. This option is enabled only for queries with the status Released and the Query category type. Select the query and choose Copy Analytical Query from the icon. The Copy Source Query dialog box prompts you to select a view. When you choose OK, the query data is copied to a different view. You can also copy analytical queries created by customers. Note As of SAP S/4HANA release 2021, the View Browser app supports CDS view entity. The following functions for CDS view entity aren't available in the app:   Create Analytical Query function for released cubes    Open in Analytical Query and Copy Analytical Query for released queries        Navigation to CDS view details page from other apps: You can navigate to the CDS view details page that is available in the View Browser app from other apps. To do so, enter https://&sap-language=EN#CDSView-browse?View=. Enter the CDS view name that you want to look for. The View Details page of the CDS view, along with all details, is displayed.   
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