Creating Custom CDS Views and Analytical Query – A step by step guide

Dear All ,

I am working on S4HANA Cloud Implementation Project for Procurement area . During my Implementation experience I came across the requirement to create a report that will have Purchase Order Header , Line item details as well as the Invoicing details. There were no standard reports to give me this details . Hence I used the custom CDS views and created Analytical Query to build the report .

This article will provide you the step by step guide how to create custom CDS Views and analytical Query in S4HANA CLOUD

Step 1: Go to the App Custom CDS view

Click on Create and fill in the below details .Note only when the Scenario is Analytical Cube you can use the CDS view to create an analytical Query from it.

Step 2: Add data sources

Click on Primary Data Source and select

I_PurchaseOrderAPI01

Now select the Associated Data Source

Step 3: Add join condition

Select Cardinality and click on Add to choose the field for association

In the value select on help and add the same field from the primary data source . In our case it is the purchase order.

Similarly click on the join condition for third data source

I_SuplrInvcItemPurOrdRefAPI01

Step 4: Go to Tab Elements to select the field you require

Click on Add  Elements to Add the fields

The 3 data sources appear .

Select on the field you want from the 3 data sources

Below are the selected field

Step 5 : Click on the next tab element properties

Scroll to the bottom , for the field Net Amount add an aggregation method. Please note for the fields with the type measure it is necessary to define the aggregation method.

Click no operation

Now you can preview to check

You can then click on Publish to use this CDS View for query.

Creating a query using the CDS view.

Step 1: Go to the app custom analytical queries

Click on create and in Data source use the CDS view that we have created.

Step 2: Click on Field selection

Select all the fields you want in your query.

Step 3:   Click on save draft and select the Preview button in the bottom

Step 4: Go to navigation panel and select the fields whether you want them in Row axis or column axis.

This is how the final query looks like

To conclude , above steps were an example using the Procurement CDS Views , you can take any CDS view from your respective module and then try to create your own query out of it .

Thanks

Payel Lakhotia