BDLDFIELDS SAP (DD: View on Fields, Data Elements, and Domains of a Table) Structure details
Description: DD: View on Fields, Data Elements, and Domains of a Table
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
BDLDFIELDS 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 "DD: View on Fields, Data Elements, and Domains of a Table" 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_BDLDFIELDS TYPE BDLDFIELDS.
The BDLDFIELDS table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about DD: View on Fields, Data Elements, and Domains of a Table data available in SAP. These include FIELDNAME (Field name), DDLANGUAGE (Language key), POSITION (Position of the field in the table), KEYFLAG (Identifies a key field of a table).. 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 BDLDFIELDS 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 |
| TABNAME | Table name | 0 | |||||||
| FIELDNAME | Field name | 0 | |||||||
| DDLANGUAGE | Language key | 0 | |||||||
| POSITION | Position of the field in the table | 0 | |||||||
| KEYFLAG | Identifies a key field of a table | 0 | |||||||
| ROLLNAME | Data element (semantic domain) | 0 | |||||||
| ADMINFIELD | Depth of structure | 0 | |||||||
| INTTYPE | ABAP data type (C,D,N,...) | 0 | |||||||
| INTLEN | Internal length in bytes | 0 | |||||||
| PRECFIELD | Name of included table | 0 | |||||||
| DATATYPE | Data type in ABAP Dictionary | 0 | |||||||
| LENG | Field length (no. of characters) | 0 | |||||||
| OUTPUTLEN | Output length | 0 | |||||||
| DECIMALS | Number of decimal places | 0 | |||||||
| DDTEXT | Short text describing R/3 Repository objects | 0 |
| Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure BDLDFIELDS using ABAP code?
As BDLDFIELDS 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 BDLDFIELDS as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table BDLDFIELDS
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about BDLDFIELDS 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