DDFIELDTAB SAP (Return Information of DDIF_FIELDINFO_GET (set-call)) Structure details
Dictionary Type: Structure
Description: Return Information of DDIF_FIELDINFO_GET (set-call)
Description: Return Information of DDIF_FIELDINFO_GET (set-call)
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
DDFIELDTAB 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 "Return Information of DDIF_FIELDINFO_GET (set-call)" 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_DDFIELDTAB TYPE DDFIELDTAB.
The DDFIELDTAB table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about Return Information of DDIF_FIELDINFO_GET (set-call) data available in SAP. These include NTABHD (), TABNAME (Table Name), DBASE (Internal Name for Database), UUID (Global Unique ID for table).. 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 DDFIELDTAB 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 | ||
| NTABHD | 0 | ||||||||
| TABNAME | Table Name | TABNAME | CHAR | 30 | AS4TAB | DTB | |||
| DBASE | Internal Name for Database | INTBASE | CHAR | 1 | CHAR1 | ||||
| UUID | Global Unique ID for table | UUID | RAW | 16 | UUID | ||||
| CRSTAMP | Time of nametab generation | CRSTAMP | CHAR | 14 | TIMESTMP | ||||
| ABSTAMP | ABAP Time Stamp | ABSTAMP | CHAR | 14 | TIMESTMP | ||||
| DYSTAMP | Screen time stamp | DYSTAMP | CHAR | 14 | TIMESTMP | ||||
| FLDCNT | Number of table fields | FLDCNT | RAW | 2 | NTABLONG | ||||
| TABLEN | Table length in bytes | TABLENGTH | RAW | 4 | DDRAW4 | ||||
| KEYCNT | Number of key fields in table | KEYCNT | RAW | 1 | NTABSHORT | ||||
| KEYLEN | Length of Table Key in Bytes | KEYLENGTH | RAW | 2 | NTABLONG | ||||
| CLPOS | Position number of the client field in the table | CLPOS | RAW | 1 | NTABSHORT | ||||
| TABTYPE | Type of the Dictionary object | TABTYPE | CHAR | 1 | TABTYPE | ||||
| TABFORM | How the Dictionary object is implemented in the database | TABFORM | CHAR | 1 | TABFORM | ||||
| REFNAME | Name of physical table (for pool/cluster/view) | REFNAME | CHAR | 30 | AS4TAB | ||||
| FLAGBYTE | Flag of length 1 byte for table attributes | TABFLAG_D | RAW | 1 | NTABSHORT | ||||
| EXROUT | Flag if table to be compressed | EXROUT | RAW | 1 | NTABSHORT | ||||
| FLAG3 | Flag of length 1 byte for table attributes | TABFLAG_D | RAW | 1 | NTABSHORT | ||||
| FLAG4 | Flag of length 1 byte for table attributes | TABFLAG_D | RAW | 1 | NTABSHORT | ||||
| FLAG5 | Flag of length 1 byte for table attributes | TABFLAG_D | RAW | 1 | NTABSHORT | ||||
| FLAG6 | Flag of length 1 byte for table attributes | TABFLAG_D | RAW | 1 | NTABSHORT | ||||
| BUFSTATE | Buffering type of table | BUFSTATE | CHAR | 1 | BUFSTATE | ||||
| BUFPARM | Supplementary information in generic buffering | BUFPARM | RAW | 2 | NTABLONG | ||||
| ALIGN | Table alignment | ALIGNMENT | RAW | 1 | NTABSHORT | ||||
| POINTERLG | Pointer length with which nametab was generated | POINTERLG | RAW | 1 | NTABSHORT | ||||
| UNICODELG | Unicode length with which runtime object was generated | UNICODELG | RAW | 1 | NTABSHORT | ||||
| COMPCNT | ABAP Dictionary: Number of Fields with Depth 0 | DDCOMPCNT | RAW | 2 | NTABLONG | ||||
| LEAFCNT | ABAP Dictionary: Leaf Content of Structure | DDLEAFCNT | RAW | 2 | NTABLONG | ||||
| DDOBJTYPE | Table category | TABCLASS | CHAR | 8 | TABCLASS | ||||
| DFIESHD | 0 | ||||||||
| TABNAME | Table Name | TABNAME | CHAR | 30 | AS4TAB | DTB | |||
| FIELDNAME | Field Name | FIELDNAME | CHAR | 30 | FDNAME | DFD | |||
| LANGU | Language Key | DDLANGUAGE | LANG | 1 | ISOLA | SPRAS | |||
| POSITION | Position of the field in the table | TABFDPOS | NUMC | 4 | AS4POS | ||||
| OFFSET | Offset of a field | DOFFSET | NUMC | 6 | DOFFSET | ||||
| DOMNAME | Domain name | DOMNAME | CHAR | 30 | DOMNAME | DD_DOMA | |||
| ROLLNAME | Data element (semantic domain) | ROLLNAME | CHAR | 30 | ROLLNAME | ROL | DD_DTEL | ||
| CHECKTABLE | Table Name | TABNAME | CHAR | 30 | AS4TAB | DTB | |||
| LENG | Length (No. of Characters) | DDLENG | NUMC | 6 | DDLENG | ||||
| INTLEN | Internal Length in Bytes | INTLEN | NUMC | 6 | DDLENG | ||||
| OUTPUTLEN | Output Length | OUTPUTLEN | NUMC | 6 | DDLENG | ||||
| DECIMALS | Number of Decimal Places | DECIMALS | NUMC | 6 | DDLENG | ||||
| DATATYPE | ABAP/4 Dictionary: Screen data type for Screen Painter | DYNPTYPE | CHAR | 4 | DATATYPE | ||||
| INTTYPE | ABAP data type (C,D,N,...) | INTTYPE | CHAR | 1 | INTTYPE | ||||
| REFTABLE | Table for reference field | REFTABLE | CHAR | 30 | AS4TAB | ||||
| REFFIELD | Reference field for currency and qty fields | REFFIELD | CHAR | 30 | FDNAME | ||||
| PRECFIELD | Name of included table | PRECFIELD | CHAR | 30 | FDNAME | ||||
| AUTHORID | Authorization class | AUTHORID | CHAR | 3 | AUTHORID | ||||
| MEMORYID | Set/Get parameter ID | MEMORYID | CHAR | 20 | MEMORYID | ||||
| LOGFLAG | Indicator for writing change documents | LOGFLAG | CHAR | 1 | AS4FLAG | ||||
| MASK | Template (not used) | AS4MASK | CHAR | 20 | AS4MASK | ||||
| MASKLEN | Template length (not used) | MASKLEN | NUMC | 4 | MASKLEN | ||||
| CONVEXIT | Conversion Routine | CONVEXIT | CHAR | 5 | CONVEXIT | ||||
| HEADLEN | Maximum length of heading | HEADLEN | NUMC | 2 | SCRLEN | ||||
| SCRLEN1 | Max. length for short field label | SCRLEN_S | NUMC | 2 | SCRLEN | ||||
| SCRLEN2 | Max. length for medium field label | SCRLEN_M | NUMC | 2 | SCRLEN | ||||
| SCRLEN3 | Max. length for long field label | SCRLEN_L | NUMC | 2 | SCRLEN | ||||
| FIELDTEXT | Short Description of Repository Objects | AS4TEXT | CHAR | 60 | AS4TEXT | ||||
| REPTEXT | Heading | REPTEXT | CHAR | 55 | REPTEXT | ||||
| SCRTEXT_S | Short Field Label | SCRTEXT_S | CHAR | 10 | SCRTEXT_S | ||||
| SCRTEXT_M | Medium Field Label | SCRTEXT_M | CHAR | 20 | SCRTEXT_M | ||||
| SCRTEXT_L | Long Field Label | SCRTEXT_L | CHAR | 40 | SCRTEXT_L | ||||
| KEYFLAG | Identifies a key field of a table | KEYFLAG | CHAR | 1 | KEYFLAG | ||||
| LOWERCASE | Lowercase letters allowed/not allowed | LOWERCASE | CHAR | 1 | AS4FLAG | ||||
| MAC | Flag if search help is attached to the field | DDSHATTACH | CHAR | 1 | DDBOOL | ||||
| GENKEY | Flag (X or Blank) | AS4FLAG | CHAR | 1 | AS4FLAG | ||||
| NOFORKEY | Flag (X or Blank) | AS4FLAG | CHAR | 1 | AS4FLAG | ||||
| VALEXI | Existence of fixed values | VALEXI | CHAR | 1 | AS4FLAG | ||||
| NOAUTHCH | Flag (X or Blank) | AS4FLAG | CHAR | 1 | AS4FLAG | ||||
| SIGN | Flag for sign in numerical fields | SIGNFLAG | CHAR | 1 | AS4FLAG | ||||
| DYNPFLD | Flag: field to be displayed on the screen | DYNPROFLD | CHAR | 1 | AS4FLAG | ||||
| F4AVAILABL | Does the field have an input help | DDF4AVAIL | CHAR | 1 | DDBOOL | ||||
| COMPTYPE | DD: Component Type | COMPTYPE | CHAR | 1 | COMPTYPE | ||||
| LFIELDNAME | Field name | FNAM_____4 | CHAR | 132 | DYNFNAM | ||||
| LTRFLDDIS | Basic write direction has been defined LTR (left-to-right) | DDLTRFLDDI | CHAR | 1 | DDBOOL | ||||
| BIDICTRLC | DD: No Filtering of BIDI Formatting Characters | DDBIDICTRL | CHAR | 1 | DDBOOL | ||||
| OUTPUTSTYLE | DD: Output Style (Output Style) for Decfloat Types | OUTPUTSTYLE | NUMC | 2 | OUTPUTSTYLE | ||||
| NOHISTORY | DD: Flag for Deactivating Input History in Screen Field | DDNOHISTORY | CHAR | 1 | DDBOOL | ||||
| AMPMFORMAT | DD: Indicator whether AM/PM time format is required | DDAMPMFORMAT | CHAR | 1 | DDAMPMFORMAT | ||||
| LINES_DESCR | 0 | ||||||||
| DFIES_TAB | 0 | ||||||||
| FIXED_VALUES | 0 |
| Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure DDFIELDTAB using ABAP code?
As DDFIELDTAB 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 DDFIELDTAB as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table DDFIELDTAB
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about DDFIELDTAB 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