Hi
Could anyone explain me the whole procedure of working with Taxanomy Table in Console and Import Manager?
Product categories and subcategories, along with the attributes associated with them, are represented in an MDM repository as a hierarchy in a taxonomy table. A taxonomy table is a special kind of lookup table that provides support not only for a hierarchy of category and subcategory records, but also for category-specific attributes that can be assigned to each category on a category-by-category basis.
MDM supports multiple simultaneous taxonomies within a single MDM repository.
To Answer your question in wrt "console":
In MDM you can use Taxonomy mode in which you can create and manage the category hierarchy, create and manage the pool of attributes, and assign attributes to categories on a category-by-category basis.
Taxonomy mode also provides powerful functionality that allows you to flexibly restructure the taxonomy of a fully populated MDM repository so that you can continue to refine your taxonomy even after it contains detailed information on thousands or even millions of objects.
How To switch to Taxonomy mode:
1)Click the Taxonomy Mode toolbar button, or press Ctrl + 3, or choose View Taxonomy Mode from the main menu.
To specify the current table:
2)Click on the drop-down table list (figure below) or press F4, and select the taxonomy table whose categories and attributes you want to view and edit.
3)Alternatively, choose View Table from the main menu and choose from the cascading menu of tables.
Plz note tht:Only taxonomy tables are available in Taxonomy mode.
Adding a child/sibling to Taxonomy:
1. In the taxonomy tree, select the category either: (1) after which you want the new category to appear as a sibling; or (2) under which you want the new category to appear as a child.
2. Right-click on the category and choose from the context menu, or choose Tree from the main menu and choose from the main menu, as follows:
Add Sibling
Add Child
3. MDM adds a new category named New Item either: (1) as a sibling of and just after the selected category; or (2) as the last child of the selected category, and highlights it for editing (figure below).
4. Type the name you want for the category and press Enter.
To understand constraints of Creating taxonomy :
[visit the URL|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_mdm550/helpdata/en/43/994321873b25e5e10000000a1553f7/content.htm]
2) How to Import the Attributes Table, Import the Attributes Text values, Import the Attributes Links?
Regarding this, you can follow the steps as mentioned below:
1. Select Attributes table from the first dropdown list ( source table ) located on the toolbar
2. Click on the Second dropdown list ( destination table) and select the Table Categories Attributes
3. Go to Map field or values tab:
in source fileds:
ex: attribute name, attribute type. should be there.
Map these sourece fields to destination fields. map the values also.
4. GO to Match records tab and in the import status tab execute import action.
5. Select the Attributes Values table from the first dropdown list (source table ) located on the toolbar.
6. Click on the Second dropdown list ( destination table) and select the Table
Categories Text Values
7. Click on Map fields/values Tab.
source fields: attribute name, attribute text values should be there.
map Attriute name and attribute text values (source to destination fields).
8. Go to Match records Tab and in the import status tab execute the import action.
9. Select the Attributes Link table from the first dropdown list located on the toolbar
10. Click on the second dropdown list and select the Table Categories Links
11. Click on the Map Fields/Values Tab
source fields: attribute name, link type, priority, node name ( it will be in delimited, set up a delimiter,, and split into hierarchy)
map all source fields to destination fields, and do the value mapping also if required.
12. Click on the match records tab,
do the value matching and default import action.
13. click on Import status tab & execute the import action.
14. Verify the results in the data manager.
Process flow overvierw:
Process Flow Overview
1. Launch MDM Import Manager.
2. Select the Source File to Import.
3. Select the Source and Destination Tables.
4. Import the hierarchy Table into the Taxonomy.
5. Import the Attributes Table.
6. Import the Attributes Text values.
7. Import the Attributes Links.
8. Verify the Results.
I hope this will help you,
Rgds,
Krutarth
Edited by: Krutarth Amish Vasavada on Jul 14, 2008 3:14 PM
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