Moving Fields

You can move one or more fields of a table.

To move one field, proceed as follows:

  1. Position the cursor on the field to be moved and select it with Edit ® Select/deselect.
  2. Choose Edit ® Cut.

    3. The selected field is cut and loaded into the buffer.

  3. Position the cursor on the field in front of which you want to insert the selected field and choose Edit ® Paste.

The field is inserted in the table at the new position.

To move several fields, proceed as follows:

  1. Position the cursor on the first field of the block to be moved and choose Edit ® Select block.
  2. Position the cursor on the last field of the block to be moved and choose Edit ® Select block.

    3. All the fields of the selected block are highlighted.

  3. Choose Edit ® Cut.

    4. The selected block is cut and loaded into the buffer.

  4. Position the cursor on the field in front of which you want to insert the fields and choose Edit ® Paste.

The selected fields are inserted at the new position in the table.

The order of the fields in the ABAP Dictionary can differ from the order of the fields on the database. Changing the order of the fields (with the exception of key fields) in the ABAP Dictionary therefore does not result in a change on the database. In particular, a table conversion is not necessary.

If the table is a check table, you cannot change the order of the key fields. In this case you must first delete the corresponding foreign key.