COMPONENTS SAP (Components of stored documents) Structure details
Description: Components of stored documents
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
COMPONENTS 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 "Components of stored 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_COMPONENTS TYPE COMPONENTS.
The COMPONENTS table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about Components of stored documents data available in SAP. These include MIMETYPE (SAP ArchiveLink: Poolinfo/Storage Strategy), COMPSIZE (Natural Number), ROOTOBJECT (SAP ArchiveLink: Poolinfo/Storage Strategy), COMPDATEC (SAP ArchiveLink: Storage date).. 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 COMPONENTS 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 |
| COMPID | Character field of length 60 | CHAR_LG_60 | CHAR | 60 | CHAR_LG_60 | ||||
| MIMETYPE | SAP ArchiveLink: Poolinfo/Storage Strategy | SAEPOOLINF | CHAR | 128 | SADC128 | ||||
| COMPSIZE | Natural Number | INT4 | INT4 | 10 | INT4 | ||||
| ROOTOBJECT | SAP ArchiveLink: Poolinfo/Storage Strategy | SAEPOOLINF | CHAR | 128 | SADC128 | ||||
| COMPDATEC | SAP ArchiveLink: Storage date | SAEABADATE | DATS | 8 | SADDATUM | ||||
| COMPTIMEC | Time when an archive file was generated | ADMI_TIME | TIMS | 6 | RKZ_TIME | ||||
| COMPDATEM | SAP ArchiveLink: Storage date | SAEABADATE | DATS | 8 | SADDATUM | ||||
| COMPTIMEM | Time when an archive file was generated | ADMI_TIME | TIMS | 6 | RKZ_TIME | ||||
| STATUS | SAP ArchiveLink: Document status | SAEDOKSTAT | CHAR | 20 | SADC20 |
| Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure COMPONENTS using ABAP code?
As COMPONENTS 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 COMPONENTS as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table COMPONENTS
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about COMPONENTS 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