SAP Business Workflow (BC-BMT-WFM)

Attribute for which a read procedure always has to be implemented, since no field content in the database corresponds to this attribute. Its value is established by evaluating what may be complex database contents at runtime.

It generally applies that multiline attributes and attributes that reference a object with several key fields are to be implemented as virtual attributes.

A virtual attribute can return the value of an ABAP Dictionary field or an object reference.