Select Columns Page

The Select Columns page in the SAP BW Register Tables wizard enables you to specify which column metadata you want to write to your metadata repository. You can select columns from each InfoCube that you selected in the Select InfoObjects page or from the ODS table that you selected in the SAP BW Browser page. You can select all columns in the tables or a specified combination of columns. Selecting only the columns that you want enables you to reduce the time required to extract the InfoCube or ODS table data and also minimizes the disk space required to store the data.
The Select Columns page in the SAP BW Register Tables wizard contains the following items:
Selected tables
displays an alphabetical list of tables that are defined in the ODS object or InfoCube that you selected in the previous page
Columns
displays a list of the columns that are associated with the selected tables. Metadata such as the field name, field text, field format, and so on, is listed for each column. By default, all columns are selected. If you do not want to include a column when you are writing metadata to the metadata repository, deselect the check box beside the field name that is associated with the column.
The Select Columns page in the SAP BW Register Tables wizard contains the following buttons:
Select All
selects all columns that are associated with the selected tables.
Clear All
deselects any columns that you selected for the tables in the Selected tables list.
Invert
selects all columns that are not currently selected and deselects all that are currently selected.