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2017407 - How to figure out the Work Center Shortened Name

Symptom

You want to know the Technical Name or Shortened Name of one or more Work Center in order to retrieved via ODATA but you do not know how.

Reproducing the Issue

Try to load the Metadata Document of an Analytics Service, for example:

https://<your system information>.sapbydesign.com/sap/byd/odata/<shortened name of work center>_analytics.svc/$metadata

Resolution

You can get this information by opening the Available OData Services through of the following URL: https://<your system information>.sapbydesign.com/sap/byd/odata

It returns a list of SAP data protocol services along with the shortened work center name, representing the work centers assigned to the logon user.

The convention name are: <shortened name of work center>_analytics.svc.

As example:

  • fin_generalledger_analytics.svc
  • pro_projectmanagement_analytics.svc
  • cc_home_analytics.svc
  • fin_audit_analytics.svc
  • etc...

See Also

Retrieving Analytics Data Using OData documentation available in the Help Center.

Keywords

KBA , AP-RC-ANA , C4C, ByD, Travel: Analytics Tools & Frameworks , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions