SAP GENFLAG Data Element Type Generation flag ABAP dictionary fields
GENFLAG is a standard DATA Element within the SAP ABAP dictionary and is associated with fields that store Purchasing Document information.
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Attributes of SAP Data Element GENFLAG
| Data element (semantic domain): More details... | GENFLAG |
| Activation Status of a Repository Object: More details... | Entry activated or generated in this form |
| Language Key: More details... | E |
| Version of the entry (not used): More details... | |
| Domain name: More details... | GENFLAG |
| Short Description of Repository Objects: More details... | Generation flag |
| Length (No. of Characters): More details... | |
| Heading: More details... | Gen. |
| Get/Set parameter ID: More details... | |
| No parameter ID is assigned to this data element so the ABAP statements GET PARAMETER ID and SET PARAMETER ID can't be used to store and retrieve values from memory | |
| Short Field Label: More details... | Gen. Flag |
| Flag for writing change documents: More details... | No |
| Change document history is not recorded for this FIELD and no entries will be made in tables CDHDR and CDPOS.
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| Medium Field Label: More details... | Generation Flag |
| Maximum length of heading: More details... | 4 |
| Max. length for short field label: More details... | 10 |
| Long Field Label: More details... | Generation Flag |
| Max. length for medium field label: More details... | 15 |
| Max. length for long field label: More details... | 23 |
| Activation flag: More details... | Start of activation or activation successful |
| Application class for DD objects (not used): More details... | STRW |
| Activation type: More details... | No classification |
| Original Language in Repository objects: More details... | D |
| SDIC: Reserve for data elements (not used): More details... | |
| Flag for private DD objects (not used): More details... | |
| Name of a Search Help: More details... | |
| Name of a search help parameter: More details... | |
| Default name for components using the data element: More details... | |
| Data Type in ABAP Dictionary: More details... | CHAR |
| Length (No. of Characters): More details... | 1 |
| Number of Decimal Places: More details... | |
| Output Length: More details... | 1 |
| Allow lowercase letters or NOT: More details... | No |
| As this is set to No all text stored within a field associated with domain GENFLAG will be converted to uppercase irrespective of case entered by the user. | |
| Field contains negative values: More details... | Yes |
| Basically saves the first position of the field so that a + or -sign can be displayed when output. Only valid for floating point,Quantity, Decimal and Currency data types | |
| Conversion Routine: More details... | |
| Converts the field value between the display and internally stored format. The 5 char ID (i.e. ) associates this field with the underlying ABAP function modules that perform the conversion. | |
| Domain contains fixed values: More details... | Yes |
| See Domain GENFLAG for full list of values | |
| Value table: More details... | |
| Category of Dictionary Type: More details... | D |
| Type of Object Referenced: More details... | |
| Not relevant as this field is an Elementary Domain Type rather than a reference type. | |
| DD: Is a generated proxy object: More details... | |
| Force write direction to be LTR: More details... | |
| If this flag is set the field content is always displayed using the left to right writing direction, even if the write direction of the screen/user is right to left. Maybe useful for digit based data such as phone numbers which may be un-readable using RTL direction. See OSS note 1291845 | |
| DD: No Filtering of BIDI Formatting Characters: More details... | |
| DD: Flag for Deactivating Input History in Screen Field: More details... | |
SAP tables using Data Element GENFLAG
Tables with field using data element GENFLAGRelated Data Elements in SAP
CDB_GENFLAG - Generation FlagCOMT_CRD_GEN_BW_GENFLAG - Objects Generated
COMT_FRGTYPE_GENFLAG - Set Type Has Been Generated
GENFLAG - Generation flag
HRWPC_GENFLAG - Column is Generically Usable
MC_GENFLAG - Indicator: object generated
OMGENFLAG - Column Framework: Column Can Be Used Generically
ROGENFLAG - DataSource uses generic interfaces
RSGENFLAG - Indicator: Object was generated
SMO_GENFLAG - Indicates if Target group was generated for a Planning Cust
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