From the course: Introduction to SAP BI/BW

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DataSources overview

DataSources overview

- [Instructor] So we're currently in the file flat file source system. And these data sources down here have been custom configured. So open those up. We can see that this particular attribute file is being loaded from this source. So someone's computer, the file type, the separator, SAP is going to automatically suggest to you how it feels that this data should be brought into BW. And then you can customize that in this field section here. And then you can ultimately preview how your data is going to look based on how you configure the fields. So general info, which is what describes your data source the extraction tab. So where you're sourcing your data from, you're specifying file specific information like header rows you want to ignore, you don't want to bring in descriptions of a particular column at the top, because that is completely different from the rest of your data. You don't want it in there…

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