Introduction to the BDT - What is the BDT?

The BDT (Business Data Toolset) is a central control tool for maintaining master data and simple transaction data. In addition to dialog maintenance, it also supports maintenance with direct input and/or function modules.

The BDT also provides generic services for consistently recurring requirements such as occur in change document lists, field groupings and the deletion program. It takes control over these objects as well as generic parts and calls the applications using predefined interfaces (control tables and events). The applications themselves introduce application-specific enhancements, such as writing and reading application tables.

Note: The BDT is used at SAP for maintaining several application objects (see Current Status , user). Development partners and customers can also extend these application objects via the BDT interfaces. However, objects belonging to the development partners and customers may not be mapped using the BDT, as the required control has not yet been released.