SEDDS_FIELD SAP (DD: Reference Structure for Field Selection) Structure details
Description: DD: Reference Structure for Field Selection
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
SEDDS_FIELD 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 "DD: Reference Structure for Field Selection" 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_SEDDS_FIELD TYPE SEDDS_FIELD.
The SEDDS_FIELD table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about DD: Reference Structure for Field Selection data available in SAP. These include FIELDNAME (Field Name), KEYFLAG (Identifies a key field of a table), ROLLNAME (Data element (semantic domain)), DATATYPE (Data Type in ABAP Dictionary).. 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 SEDDS_FIELD 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 |
| SEL_FLAG | Selection Field | SEL_FLAG | CHAR | 1 | CHAR1_X | ||||
| FIELDNAME | Field Name | FIELDNAME | CHAR | 30 | Assigned to domain | FDNAME | DFD | ||
| KEYFLAG | Identifies a key field of a table | KEYFLAG | CHAR | 1 | KEYFLAG | ||||
| ROLLNAME | Data element (semantic domain) | ROLLNAME | CHAR | 30 | Assigned to domain | ROLLNAME | ROL | DD_DTEL | |
| DATATYPE | Data Type in ABAP Dictionary | DATATYPE_D | CHAR | 4 | DTYPE | DATATYPE | |||
| LENG | DD: DB length of DD objects and fields | DBLEN | INT2 | 5 | DBLEN | ||||
| DECIMALS | Number of Decimal Places | DECIMALS | NUMC | 6 | DDLENG | ||||
| DDTEXT | Explanatory short text | DDTEXT | CHAR | 60 | DDTEXT |
| Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure SEDDS_FIELD using ABAP code?
As SEDDS_FIELD 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 SEDDS_FIELD as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table SEDDS_FIELD
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about SEDDS_FIELD 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