How To Fix R3314 - Basic characteristic & has no metadata assignment in & for hierarchies

R3314 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: R3 - Service API messages

• Message number: 314

• Message text: Basic characteristic & has no metadata assignment in & for hierarchies

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R3314 - Details

• The SAP error message R3314 indicates that a basic characteristic does not have a metadata assignment for hierarchies. This typically occurs in the context of SAP BW (Business Warehouse) or SAP BW/4HANA when working with InfoObjects and hierarchies.
  
  Cause:
  
  Missing Metadata Assignment: The basic characteristic in question has not been assigned the necessary metadata for hierarchies. This means that the system does not know how to handle the hierarchy structure for that characteristic.
  Incorrect Configuration: The characteristic may not be properly configured to support hierarchies, or the hierarchy itself may not be defined correctly.
  Transport Issues: If the characteristic was transported from another system, the hierarchy metadata might not have been included in the transport request.
  
  
  Solution:
  
  
  Check Hierarchy Assignment:
  
  Go to the InfoObject maintenance (transaction RSD1) for the characteristic in question.
  Ensure that the hierarchy is correctly assigned to the characteristic. You can do this by checking the "Hierarchy" tab in the InfoObject maintenance screen.
  
  
  
  Define Hierarchies:
  
  If the