FORMABW SAP (Absence Form) Structure details
Description: Absence Form
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
FORMABW 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 "Absence Form" 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_FORMABW TYPE FORMABW.
The FORMABW table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about Absence Form data available in SAP. These include NAME (Formatted Name of Employee or Applicant), REMAIN (Leave entitlement - total for all leave types), ABEGIN (Start Date), AEND (End 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: Can be enhanced (character-type or numeric)
SAP FORMABW 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 |
PERNR | Personnel Number | PERNR_D | NUMC | 8 | PERNR | PER | |||
NAME | Formatted Name of Employee or Applicant | EMNAM | CHAR | 40 | TEXT40 | ||||
REMAIN | Leave entitlement - total for all leave types | UANSS | DEC | 6(2) | URTAG | ||||
ABEGIN | Start Date | BEGDA | DATS | 8 | DATUM | ||||
AEND | End Date | ENDDA | DATS | 8 | DATUM | ||||
NOTICE | Character value | SWC_VALUE | CHAR | 255 | SWC_VALUE | ||||
ACTAGENT | Actual Agent | SWP_AAGENT | CHAR | 14 | HROBJEC_14 | ||||
ATYPE | Attendance or Absence Type | AWART | CHAR | 4 | Assigned to domain | AWART | |||
ATEXT | Aspect Name | ATEXT | CHAR | 40 | TEXT40 | ||||
STATE | Status in workflow | STATUSWF | CHAR | 1 | STATUSWF | ||||
FNAME | Character value | SWC_VALUE | CHAR | 255 | SWC_VALUE | ||||
FTYPE | Character value | SWC_VALUE | CHAR | 255 | SWC_VALUE | ||||
ABEGTIM | Start Time | BEGTI | TIMS | 6 | UZEIT | ||||
AENDTIM | End Time | ENDTI | TIMS | 6 | UZEIT | ||||
STDAZ | Absence hours | ABSTD | DEC | 7(2) | JRSTD |
Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure FORMABW using ABAP code?
As FORMABW 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 FORMABW as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table FORMABW
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about FORMABW 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