Effect of adding new Nav Atts to Infoobject on BIA index

[Former Member]

I have BIA Index on an Infoobject 0ABC(say).

Now I add new navigaitonal attributes to this infoobject.

How does this affect the existing BIA Index on this infoobject.

Is a change run sufficient to accomodate the new fields in my master data table.

Or do I have to rebuild the BIA index for this.

Thanks,

Saurabh Bansal

[Vitaliy-R · Accepted solution]

Hi. That's the easy one. In theory, there is no change in BIA required if you just change an InfoObject itself. BIA should index only nav. attributes that are used in InfoCubes. So, the change would happen on BIA side once you include this nav. attribute in some cube. Then activation of this cube will adjust BIA indexes (and rebuild if needed).

Hope this helps,

-Vitaliy

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

So that means BIA Index will be adjusted when the Infocube is activated.

Does that imply the Infocube Activation is going to run for long (really long in some cases) ??

What about the queries running on this cube during this time ?

My observations: infocube activaiton kicks off another job that does the necessary adjustment of BIA indexes to the affected cube. (Program -RSDDTREX_INDEX_ADJUST ).

BIA Index is NOT available for repoting during this time.

Thanks,

Saurabh