The Applications infotype (4001) is used to store information on whether an application was made in response to an advertisement, or is an unsolicited application.

A new data record of the Applications infotype (4001) is created for every application received from an applicant. Each record is linked to a specific point in time, that is, the start and end date of the record contain the date on which the application was received.

The time constraint for this infotype is 3.