CIF_POTEXT SAP (Texts for External Procurement Orders) Structure details
Description: Texts for External Procurement Orders
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
CIF_POTEXT 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 "Texts for External Procurement Orders" 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_POTEXT TYPE CIF_POTEXT.
The CIF_POTEXT table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about Texts for External Procurement Orders data available in SAP. These include DOC (Document Number (Purchasing/Sales...)), ITEM (Item Number of Document (Purchasing, Sales...)), COUNTER (Natural Number), TDFORMAT (Tag column).. 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 CIF_POTEXT 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 |
| ORDERID | GUID for Order Headers | CIFORDID | CHAR | 22 | CIFGUID22 | ||||
| DOC | Document Number (Purchasing/Sales...) | CIFDOC | CHAR | 12 | CIFDELNR | ||||
| ITEM | Item Number of Document (Purchasing, Sales...) | CIFITEM | NUMC | 6 | CIFDELPS | ||||
| COUNTER | Natural Number | INT4 | INT4 | 10 | INT4 | ||||
| TDFORMAT | Tag column | TDFORMAT | CHAR | 2 | TDELEMSTYL | ||||
| TDLINE | Text Line | TDLINE | CHAR | 132 | TDSTXLLINE |
| Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure CIF_POTEXT using ABAP code?
As CIF_POTEXT 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_POTEXT as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table CIF_POTEXT
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about CIF_POTEXT 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