API_CV SAP (Variant Article Values for Material Number Assignment) Structure details
Description: Variant Article Values for Material Number Assignment
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
API_CV is a standard SAP Structure so does not store data like a database table does. It can be used to define the fields of other actual tables or to process "Variant Article Values for Material Number Assignment" Information within sap ABAP programs.
This is done by declaring abap internal tables, work areas or database tables based on this Structure. These can then be used to store and process the required data appropriately.
i.e. DATA: wa_API_CV TYPE API_CV.
The API_CV table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about Variant Article Values for Material Number Assignment data available in SAP. These include ATNAM (Characteristic Name), ATBEZ (Characteristic description), ATWRT (Characteristic Value), ATWTB (Characteristic value description).. See below for full list along with technical details, documentation, text table, check tables, foreign key relationships, conversion routines, relevant tcodes and example ABAP select code etc. .
Delivery Class:Display/Maintenance via tcode SM30: Display/Maintenance Allowed but with Restrictions
SAP enhancement categories: Not classified
SAP API_CV structure fields - Full list of fields found in SAP data dictionary
| Field | Description | Data Element | Data Type | length (Dec) | Check table | Conversion Routine | Domain Name | MemoryID | SHLP |
| CUOBJ | Configuration (internal object number) | CUOBJ | NUMC | 18 | CUOBJ | CUX | |||
| ATNAM | Characteristic Name | ATNAM | CHAR | 30 | ATNAM | FEA | |||
| ATBEZ | Characteristic description | ATBEZ | CHAR | 30 | TEXT30 | ||||
| ATWRT | Characteristic Value | ATWRT | CHAR | 30 | ATWRT | ||||
| ATWTB | Characteristic value description | ATWTB | CHAR | 30 | TEXT30 |
| Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure API_CV using ABAP code?
As API_CV is a database structure and not a table it does not store any data in the SAP data dictionary. The ABAP SELECT statement is therefore not appropriate and can not be performed on API_CV as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table API_CV
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about API_CV and the data within it using relevant transactions such asSE11 (ABAP Dictionary Maintenance)
SM30 (Maintain Table Data)
SE80 (Object Navigator)
SE16 (Data Browser).
Search for further information about these or an SAP related objects