SAP COFV Process Management: Process Instr. Charact. in Ctrl Recipe Table data and field list

COFV is a standard SAP Table which is used to store Process Management: Process Instr. Charact. in Ctrl Recipe data in SAP systems, such as SAP R/3, S/4HANA, depending on the version and release level.

The COFV table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about Process Management: Process Instr. Charact. in Ctrl Recipe data available in SAP. These include CRID (Control recipe number), FTNO (Sequence number of process instruction in recipe), FVNO (Sequence number of proc.instruction characteristic in recipe), ATINN (Internal characteristic)... 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. .

COFV table Technical Details:

Delivery Class: A - Application table (master and transaction data)
Display/Maintenance via tcode SM30: Display/Maintenance Allowed but with Restrictions
SAP enhancement categories: Can be enhanced (character-type or numeric)

SAP COFV table fields - Full list of fields found in SAP data dictionary

Looking for S/4HANA specific information? Click here to explore the details, fields and extensibility available for this table in the SAP S/4HANA version of the COFV table. Also check whether the table still exists or has been transformed into a CDS view as part of the HANA simplifications.

Field	Description	Data Element	Data Type	length (Dec)	Check table	Conversion Routine	Domain Name	MemoryID	SHLP
MANDT	Client	MANDT	CLNT	3	T000		MANDT
CRID	Control recipe number	CO_CRID	NUMC	18	COCH	ALPHA	CO_CRID
FTNO	Sequence number of process instruction in recipe	FTNO	NUMC	8	COFT		FTNO
FVNO	Sequence number of proc.instruction characteristic in recipe	FVNO	NUMC	4			NUMC4
ATINN	Internal characteristic	ATINN	NUMC	10	Assigned to domain	ATINN	ATINN
ATWRT	Characteristic Value	ATWRT	CHAR	30			ATWRT
ATFLV	Internal floating point from	ATFLV	FLTP	16(16)			FLTP
ATFLB	Internal floating point value to	ATFLB	FLTP	16(16)			FLTP
ATAWE	Alternative unit	ATAWE	UNIT	3	T006	CUNIT	MEINS
ATAW1	Alternative unit	ATAWE	UNIT	3	T006	CUNIT	MEINS
ATCOD	Code for value dependency	ATCOD	CHAR	1			ATCOD
ATFOR	Data type of characteristic	ATFOR	CHAR	4			ATFOR
FVLNR	Line Number of Process Instruction Characteristic	R_FVNR	CHAR	4		NUMCV	VORNR
MKMZL	Internal PI characteristic/characteristic value number	PLNFV	NUMC	8			NUMC8

Key field

Non-key field

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How do I retrieve data from SAP table COFV using ABAP code

The following ABAP code Example will allow you to do a basic selection on COFV to SELECT all data from the table
DATA: WA_COFV TYPE COFV.

SELECT SINGLE *
FROM COFV
INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF WA_COFV
WHERE...

How to access SAP table COFV

Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about COFV and the data within it using relevant transactions such as

SE11 (ABAP Dictionary Maintenance)
SM30 (Maintain Table Data)
SE80 (Object Navigator)
SE16 (Data Browser).