ESS_WHO_PARA SAP (ESS Who's Who: Essential Parameters) Structure details
Description: ESS Who's Who: Essential Parameters
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
ESS_WHO_PARA 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 "ESS Who's Who: Essential Parameters" 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_ESS_WHO_PARA TYPE ESS_WHO_PARA.
The ESS_WHO_PARA table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about ESS Who's Who: Essential Parameters data available in SAP. These include BAPI_S (Indicator), BAPI_Q (Indicator), SELID (ID for Selection Condition), SELTXT (Description of Selection).. 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 ESS_WHO_PARA 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 |
| FUNCAREA | SAP Query (S): InfoSet | AQS_SGNAME | CHAR | 24 | AQT_SGNAME | ||||
| BAPI_S | Indicator | FLAG_X | CHAR | 1 | CHAR1_X | ||||
| BAPI_Q | Indicator | FLAG_X | CHAR | 1 | CHAR1_X | ||||
| SELID | ID for Selection Condition | HR_SELID | CHAR | 20 | HRSELID | HRBAS00SELID | |||
| SELTXT | Description of Selection | HR_SELTEXT | CHAR | 40 | HR_SELTEXT | ||||
| QUERY | SAP Query (S): Query name | AQS_QUNAME | CHAR | 14 | AQT_QUNAME |
| Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure ESS_WHO_PARA using ABAP code?
As ESS_WHO_PARA 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 ESS_WHO_PARA as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table ESS_WHO_PARA
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about ESS_WHO_PARA 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