CATALOG_ENTRY

Pricing Catalogs for Monetizing Customer Services (in SAP Master Data)

Definition


The CATALOG_ENTRY table contains all the elements for the pricing catalogs defined in master data owned by a service provider

Description


The CATALOG_ENTRY table contains all the elements for the pricing catalogs stored in SAP Master Data. The service provider is the owner of the master data but there is no dedicated database table.

A pricing catalog contains several entries in this table. It includes all the objects necessary to configure the pricing logic related to the use of a customer service.

In each pricing catalog you can find all the pricing objects configured in the SAP CC system for a service provider:

And business data tables:

Technical Data


Schema Version 4.6.2
Filegroup CATALOG_DATA
Partitioned No

Summary


The CATALOG_ENTRY table is defined by the following columns in your back-end database. See the column details for more information.

Name PK FK IX Uses Used by Definition
OID PK_CATALOG_ENTRY       

The unique identifier of a catalog entry
PARENT     IX_CATA_PARENT  CATALOG_ENTRY (OID)
 

    The OID of the parent catalog entry

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    INDEX_IN_CATA        

      The position of this entry into its parent catalog
      ENTRY_NAME        

      The identification codename of the entry in the catalog of a service provider
      ENTRY_TYPE        

        The type of the catalog entry

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        ENTRY_CODE     IX_CATA_CODE   

          The identification code of the subentry in the catalog. It is null if the entry is the root

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          OWNER     IX_CATA_OWNER   

          The owner of the pricing catalog: The service provider that offers the customer service to monetize and that owns the business agreements (provider contracts, subscriptions) based on this pricing catalog

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          Column Details

          The database schema defines the following columns. Check the definitions, types, available indexes, and formats:

          OID

          Definition The unique identifier of a catalog entry
          Type DECIMAL(28), NOT NULL
          Primary Key PK_CATALOG_ENTRY

          PARENT

          Definition The OID of the parent catalog entry
          Description The OID of the parent catalog entry. It can be null if this entry is the root of a pricing catalog (entry type is root_directory).
          Type DECIMAL(28), NULL
          Available Index IX_CATA_PARENT

          INDEX_IN_CATA

          Definition The position of this entry into its parent catalog
          Type DECIMAL(5), NOT NULL

          ENTRY_NAME

          Definition The identification codename of the entry in the catalog of a service provider
          Type NVARCHAR(256), NOT NULL

          ENTRY_TYPE

          Definition The type of the catalog entry
          Format

          The possible values for a directory are:

          • user_directory
          • system_directory
          • root_directory
          The possible values for an object in a catalog are:
          • product
          • offer
          • pricingMacro
          • translationTable
          • tierTable
          • mappingTableClass
          • mappingTable
          • rangeTableClass
          • rangeTable
          • chargeableItemClass
          • chargeComponent
          • chargedItemClass
          • chargedItemAggregationPolicy
          • chargePlan
          • refillItemClass
          • refillLogic
          • refillRecordClass
          • refillPlan
          • allowanceEventClass
          • allowanceLogic
          • allowancePlan
          • monitoringPlan

          Type NVARCHAR(256), NULL

          ENTRY_CODE

          Definition The identification code of the subentry in the catalog. It is null if the entry is the root
          Description The identification code of the subentry in the pricing catalog.

          Notes

          • See the CODE column of the PRODUCT, TRANSLATION_TABLE, TIER_TABLE,OFFER, ... tables according to the type of entry.
          • It can be null if this entry is the root of a catalog (entry type is root_directory).
          Type NVARCHAR(256), NULL
          Available Index IX_CATA_CODE

          OWNER

          Definition The owner of the pricing catalog: The service provider that offers the customer service to monetize and that owns the business agreements (provider contracts, subscriptions) based on this pricing catalog
          Description

          The legal owner of the pricing catalog: The service provider company that offers the customer service to monetize and that owns the business agreements based on this pricing catalog:

          Notes

          Each service provider owns the master data that includes all the data objects configured and managed in SAP CC. For example, consider the subscriber accounts in customer master data.

          Type NVARCHAR(64), NULL
          Available Index IX_CATA_OWNER

          Primary Key Details

          See the primary key information:

          PK_CATALOG_ENTRY

          Column(s) OID
          Filegroup CATALOG_DATA

          Index Details

          The following database indexes are available in the CATALOG_ENTRY database table to improve the speed of data retrieval operations during the business processes of SAP Convergent Charging:

          IX_CATA_CODE

          Indexed Column(s) ENTRY_CODE
          Unique No
          Partitioned No
          Clustered No
          Filegroup CATALOG_INDX

          IX_CATA_OWNER

          Indexed Column(s) OWNER
          Unique No
          Partitioned No
          Clustered No
          Filegroup CATALOG_INDX

          IX_CATA_PARENT

          Indexed Column(s) PARENT
          Unique No
          Partitioned No
          Clustered No
          Filegroup CATALOG_INDX