TBTOOLS SAP (Maintenance Tools for Table Display) Structure details
Description: Maintenance Tools for Table Display
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
TBTOOLS 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 "Maintenance Tools for Table Display" 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_TBTOOLS TYPE TBTOOLS.
The TBTOOLS table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about Maintenance Tools for Table Display data available in SAP. These include OBJECTTYPE (Object type), MAINTFLAG (Flag if Maintenance with Standard Tools is allowed), CONTFLAG (Delivery class), OBJCATEG (Object category (CUST, CUSY, APPL, SYST)).. 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 TBTOOLS 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 |
| OBJECTNAME | Object Name | OB_OBJECT | CHAR | 30 | Assigned to domain | OB_OBJECT | |||
| OBJECTTYPE | Object type | OB_TYP | CHAR | 1 | OB_TYP | ||||
| MAINTFLAG | Flag if Maintenance with Standard Tools is allowed | MAINTFLAG | CHAR | 1 | MAINTFLAG | ||||
| CONTFLAG | Delivery class | CONTFLAG | CHAR | 1 | CONTFLAG | ||||
| OBJCATEG | Object category (CUST, CUSY, APPL, SYST) | OBJCATEG | CHAR | 4 | OBJCATEG | ||||
| CLIDEP | Flag indicating client-specific entries | CLIDEP | CHAR | 1 | CLIDEP | ||||
| CURSETTING | Flag: Object belongs to current settings | CURSETTING | CHAR | 1 | X | ||||
| VIEWCLASS | View Type | VIEWCLASS | CHAR | 1 | VIEWCLASS | ||||
| CUSTOMAUTH | Customer authorization for view customizing | CUSTOMAUTH | CHAR | 1 | CUSTOMAUTH | ||||
| TVDIR_EXIST | Data element for domain BOOLE: TRUE (='X') and FALSE (=' ') | BOOLE_D | CHAR | 1 | BOOLE | ||||
| TVDIR_ATRAN | Data element for domain BOOLE: TRUE (='X') and FALSE (=' ') | BOOLE_D | CHAR | 1 | BOOLE | ||||
| TVIMF_EXIST | Data element for domain BOOLE: TRUE (='X') and FALSE (=' ') | BOOLE_D | CHAR | 1 | BOOLE | ||||
| TVDIR_VCL | Data element for domain BOOLE: TRUE (='X') and FALSE (=' ') | BOOLE_D | CHAR | 1 | BOOLE | ||||
| ACTVT_APPL | Activity | ACTIV_AUTH | CHAR | 2 | Assigned to domain | ACTIV_AUTH | |||
| ACTVT_LSYS | Activity | ACTIV_AUTH | CHAR | 2 | Assigned to domain | ACTIV_AUTH |
| Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure TBTOOLS using ABAP code?
As TBTOOLS 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 TBTOOLS as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table TBTOOLS
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about TBTOOLS 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