Field Catalogs

Use

A field catalog includes all of the fields that can be selected when creating or maintaining an archive information structure. You can use it to specify which fields are incorporated in the information structure, and whether they should be key fields or data fields. You can decide whether key- or data fields should be incorporated into the information structure. The fields contained in a field catalog are always archiving object-specific.

You can create new field catalogs and edit existing ones.

Prerequisites

You need to have some expert knowledge to use this function. For example, you should be familiar with the data model of the archiving object up to table level.

Features

Editing Available Field Catalogs

You can change the definition of the available field catalogs, for example, by adding further source fields or changing the allocation of data- and key fields. The procedures for creating field catalogs are applicable in this case (see below).

Creating New Field Catalogs

To create a new field catalog, you have the following options:

  • Use fields from a source table

  • Use fields from multiple source tables

For more information, see Creating Field Catalogs (One Source Table).

Deleting Field Catalogs

Before you delete a field catalog, you must first delete all of the archive information structures that use this field catalog. A deletability check prevents the deletion of catalogs that are still in use. If you try to delete an SAP standard field catalog, the system issues a warning message to this effect.