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object type

SAP Business Workflow (BC-BMT-WFM)

Description of data (objects) in the system created at definition time in the Business Object Builder. Examples:

• Documents (invoices, purchase requisitions, job applications, and so on)

• Master data (customer, material, vendor, and so on)

• Transaction data (order, quotation, and so on)

Object types are described and implemented by specifying the following components:

• Basic data

• Key fields

• Attributes

• Methods with parameters, result and exceptions

• Events with parameters

• Implementation program

The Business Object Repository provides a full directory of all object types.

The object type must be defined before its data (objects) can be used in the system.

ABAP Workbench (BC-DWB)

Type of development object.

Most objects belong to one of the two predefined object types - R3TR and LIMU.

The object type R3TR includes complex objects, such as a program and the elements that belong to it, while the object type LIMU addresses individual elements of the system, such as a single screen.

SAPoffice Mail and Folder System (BC-SRV-OFC)

Classification of objects.

SAP applications define characteristic objects to which certain methods (for example, Create, Process) can be applied.

Example:

Object type BKPF (accounting document) is defined in the application FI. The methods Confirm, Create, and Find are defined for accounting documents.

Engineering Change Management (LO-ECH)

Categorization of change objects according to the object reference for engineering change management.

You can process objects such as bills of material, task lists, document or materials with reference to a change number.

• For bills of material or task lists, you can define differences in processing by specifying an object sub-type (such as material or document bills of materials).

• For some change objects (such as BOMs, documents), you can control the change especially using individual object management records (such as material bill of material M-1, plant 0001, usage 1).

Personnel Management (PA)

Object types allow you to classify objects according to certain features and types of information and arrange them in particular categories.

The following object types are used in Personnel Management:

• Business events

• Business event groups

• Business event types

• Companies

• External persons

• Jobs

• Services

• Locations

• Organizational units

• Positions

• Qualifications

• Requirements profiles

• Resources

• Resource types

• Standard tasks (these are delivered by SAP and are client-independent)

SAPoffice Mail and Folder System (BC-SRV-OFC)

Classification of objects.

SAP applications define characteristic objects to which certain methods (for example, Create, Process) can be applied.

Example:

Object type BKPF (accounting document) is defined in the application FI. The methods Confirm, Create, and Find are defined for accounting documents.

Controlling (CO)

Type of an account assignment object.

Examples:

• Cost centers

• Business processes

• Internal orders

• WBS elements

• Profitability segments

Basic Data (PP-BD)

Type of object that you process in the Engineering Workbench. An object can, for example, be a type of "task list type" or "item" or "component assignment".

ABAP Workbench (BC-DWB)

Type of a development object.

Most development objects belong to one of the two given object types R3TR and LIMU.

Object type R3TR includes complex objects such as programs and all the elements belonging to them. Object type LIMU refers to individual elements of the system, for example a single screen.