CATSTEXTS SAP (CATS: Short Texts for Screen Fields) Structure details
Description: CATS: Short Texts for Screen Fields
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
CATSTEXTS 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 "CATS: Short Texts for Screen Fields" 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_CATSTEXTS TYPE CATSTEXTS.
The CATSTEXTS table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about CATS: Short Texts for Screen Fields data available in SAP. These include SENDCOSTCTRTEXT (Long Text), SENDACTTYPETEXT (Long Text), COSTCTRTEXT (Long Text), WBSELEMENTTEXT (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: Cannot Be Enhanced
SAP CATSTEXTS 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 |
| POOLTEXT | Description of confirmation pool | AFRVTXT | CHAR | 40 | TEXT40 | ||||
| SENDCOSTCTRTEXT | Long Text | LTEXT | CHAR | 40 | TEXT40 | ||||
| SENDACTTYPETEXT | Long Text | LTEXT | CHAR | 40 | TEXT40 | ||||
| COSTCTRTEXT | Long Text | LTEXT | CHAR | 40 | TEXT40 | ||||
| WBSELEMENTTEXT | Description | AUFTEXT | CHAR | 40 | TEXT40 | ||||
| BUSPROCESSTEXT | Description | KLTXT | CHAR | 40 | TEXT40 | ||||
| ORDERTEXT | Description | AUFTEXT | CHAR | 40 | TEXT40 | ||||
| NETWORKTEXT | Description | AUFTEXT | CHAR | 40 | TEXT40 | ||||
| OPERATIONTEXT | Operation short text | LTXA1 | CHAR | 40 | TEXT40 | ||||
| SUBOPERATIONTEXT | Operation short text | LTXA1 | CHAR | 40 | TEXT40 | ||||
| CUSTOMERORDERTEXT | Short text for sales order item | ARKTX | CHAR | 40 | TEXT40 | ||||
| COSTOBJECTTEXT | Description | KLTXT | CHAR | 40 | TEXT40 | ||||
| WORKCENTERTEXT | Work center description | KTXT40 | CHAR | 40 | TEXT40 | ||||
| MASTACTTYPETEXT | Long Text | LTEXT | CHAR | 40 | TEXT40 | ||||
| CN_VORNR | Activity number in network and standard network | CN_VORNR | CHAR | 4 | NUMCV | VORNR | |||
| FUNDTEXT | Text (20 Characters) | TEXT20 | CHAR | 20 | TEXT20 | ||||
| FUNC_AREATEXT | Text length 25 | TEXT25 | CHAR | 25 | TEXT25 | ||||
| GRANT_NBRTEXT | Text (20 Characters) | TEXT20 | CHAR | 20 | TEXT20 | ||||
| S_FUNDTEXT | Text (20 Characters) | TEXT20 | CHAR | 20 | TEXT20 | ||||
| S_FUNC_AREATEXT | Text length 25 | TEXT25 | CHAR | 25 | TEXT25 | ||||
| S_GRANT_NBRTEXT | Text (20 Characters) | TEXT20 | CHAR | 20 | TEXT20 | ||||
| HRFUNDTEXT | Text (20 Characters) | TEXT20 | CHAR | 20 | TEXT20 | ||||
| HRFUNC_AREATEXT | Text length 25 | TEXT25 | CHAR | 25 | TEXT25 | ||||
| HRGRANT_NBRTEXT | Text (20 Characters) | TEXT20 | CHAR | 20 | TEXT20 | ||||
| TASKTYPETEXT | Text | CATSXT_TXT25 | CHAR | 25 | TEXT25 | ||||
| TASKLEVELTEXT | Text | CATSXT_TXT25 | CHAR | 25 | TEXT25 | ||||
| TASKCOMPONENTTEXT | Text | CATSXT_TXT25 | CHAR | 25 | TEXT25 | ||||
| CPR_TEXT | cProject Description | CATS_CPR_TEXT | CHAR | 40 | CHAR40 | ||||
| CPR_OBJTEXT | cProject Description | CATS_CPR_TEXT | CHAR | 40 | CHAR40 | ||||
| BUDGET_PDTEXT | FM: Budget Period Name | FM_BUDGET_PERIOD_NAME | CHAR | 35 | NAME | ||||
| SBUDGET_PDTEXT | FM: Budget Period Name | FM_BUDGET_PERIOD_NAME | CHAR | 35 | NAME | ||||
| HRBUDGET_PDTEXT | FM: Budget Period Name | FM_BUDGET_PERIOD_NAME | CHAR | 35 | NAME |
| Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure CATSTEXTS using ABAP code?
As CATSTEXTS 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 CATSTEXTS as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table CATSTEXTS
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about CATSTEXTS 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