Field Catalogs 

Use

With this function, you can create new field catalogs and maintain existing field catalogs. Defining the archive information structure always follows the definition of so-called Field Catalogs.

Standard catalogs are included within the scope of the SAP AS, which are designed to cover most application requirements. You should therefore only create your own field catalogs if the fields contained in the standard catalogs do not meet your requirements.

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

Maintain 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).

You must copy a standard catalog from the SAP namespace into your own namespace before you make any changes to it, that is before you change it to a customer-specific catalog. All entries that begin with "SAP" belong to the SAP namespace and you should not make changes to them.

Create new field catalogs

When you create a new field catalog, you must decide whether to use fields from

For information on procedures, see Create Field Catalogs (one source table).

To create field catalogs from more than one source table, see the additional Notes, which you must observe.

Deleting field catalogs

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