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InfoObject catalogs: Characteristic and key figure

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InfoObject catalogs: Characteristic and key figure

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- [Instructor] Okay, so now that we've created our info area, let's go ahead and create our next level folder, which is our InfoObject catalog. We're going to be using these to keep our different InfoObject types separate. So we'll right-click on our info area, and choose Create InfoObject Catalog. So if we look back at our data, you can see that we have a lot of text, and we have numbers. The numbers are going to be going into our Key Figures, and the text is going to be going into our characteristics. Key figures are things that you want to calculate, and characteristics are things that you use to describe something, for instance, a certain style of beer, whereas you might want to calculate the average review or the sales, things of that nature. You can't do that with text, so it's important to know that there's two different InfoObject types that we use in BW, primarily: the characteristic and the Key Figure. And we'll call…

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