CDTAB SAP (Nametab information for change documents) Structure details
Description: Nametab information for change documents
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
CDTAB 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 "Nametab information for change documents" 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_CDTAB TYPE CDTAB.
The CDTAB table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about Nametab information for change documents data available in SAP. These include FIELDNAME (Field Name), POSITION (Position of the field in the table), KEYFLAG (Identifies a key field of a table), REFTABLE (Table for reference field).. 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 CDTAB 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 | TABNAME | CHAR | 30 | Assigned to domain | AS4TAB | DTB | ||
| FIELDNAME | Field Name | FIELDNAME | CHAR | 30 | Assigned to domain | FDNAME | DFD | ||
| POSITION | Position of the field in the table | TABFDPOS | NUMC | 4 | AS4POS | ||||
| KEYFLAG | Identifies a key field of a table | KEYFLAG | CHAR | 1 | KEYFLAG | ||||
| REFTABLE | Table for reference field | REFTABLE | CHAR | 30 | Assigned to domain | AS4TAB | |||
| REFFIELD | Reference field for currency and qty fields | REFFIELD | CHAR | 30 | Assigned to domain | FDNAME | |||
| INTTYPE | ABAP data type (C,D,N,...) | INTTYPE | CHAR | 1 | INTTYPE | ||||
| INTLEN | Internal Length in Bytes | INTLEN | NUMC | 6 | DDLENG | ||||
| LOGFLAG | Indicator for writing change documents | LOGFLAG | CHAR | 1 | AS4FLAG | ||||
| DATATYPE | Data Type in ABAP Dictionary | DATATYPE_D | CHAR | 4 | DTYPE | DATATYPE | |||
| OFFSET | Offset in work area | OFFSET | INT2 | 5 | OFFSET |
| Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure CDTAB using ABAP code?
As CDTAB 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 CDTAB as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table CDTAB
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about CDTAB 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