CIF_PLNACZ SAP (PPM: Structure for Planned Activities, External Key) Structure details
Description: PPM: Structure for Planned Activities, External Key
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
CIF_PLNACZ 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 "PPM: Structure for Planned Activities, External Key" 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_CIF_PLNACZ TYPE CIF_PLNACZ.
The CIF_PLNACZ table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about PPM: Structure for Planned Activities, External Key data available in SAP. These include VORNR_EX (Operation Number), AKTNR_EX (Activity Number), METHOD (Method to be Executed During the Transfer of an Object), PLNKN (Number of the task list node).. 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 CIF_PLNACZ 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 |
PLANKEY_EX | External Plan Key, as of APO Release 3.0 | CIFPLNKEYE | CHAR | 60 | CHAR60 | ||||
VORNR_EX | Operation Number | CIFVORNR | CHAR | 12 | CHAR12 | ||||
AKTNR_EX | Activity Number | CIFACTNR | CHAR | 40 | CHAR40 | ||||
METHOD | Method to be Executed During the Transfer of an Object | CIFMETHOD | CHAR | 1 | CIFMETHOD | ||||
PLNKN | Number of the task list node | PLNKN | NUMC | 8 | KNTNR | ||||
ZAEHL | Internal counter | CIM_COUNT | NUMC | 8 | CIM_COUNT | ||||
PHASENR | Operation/Activity Number | VORNR | CHAR | 4 | NUMCV | VORNR | VGN | ||
UVORN | Suboperation | UVORN | CHAR | 4 | NUMCV | VORNR |
Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure CIF_PLNACZ using ABAP code?
As CIF_PLNACZ 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 CIF_PLNACZ as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table CIF_PLNACZ
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about CIF_PLNACZ 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