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You can create virtual fields to plan table-related analyses of custom tables and tables for which no virtual fields have yet been created.

Table Analysis (transaction TAANA) extracts information from the data fields in the table. For example, you can extract the year and month from a date field.

Activities

To create a virtual field:

  1. Select a managed system.

  2. Select whether you want to create a virtual field containing a year or a month value.

  3. Enter the table and field for which you want to create the virtual field.

  4. Choose Create.

More Information

For more information about table analysis and virtual fields, see the Application Help on SAP Help Portal at   http://help.sap.com/nw_platform   <current version>   Application Help   <choose language>   SAP NetWeaver Library: Function-Oriented View   Solution Life Cycle Management   Data Archiving   Data Archiving in the ABAP Application System   Data Archiving with Archive Development Kit (ADK)   Table Analysis   and   Analysis Variant   Virtual Fields  .