Adding Fields to a SAP-Provided Segment (SAP Library - Data Retention Tool (DART) (CA-GTF-DRT))

Adding Fields to a SAP-Provided Segment

Purpose

The data segments provided with DART define the data that can be extracted with DART. The provided segments contain specified fields from certain tables from various R/3 application components, such as Financial Accounting (FI), Controlling (CO), and others.

You may wish to add related data from fields that are not included in those segments.

This process describes how to add fields into those predefined data segments.

Prerequisites

The data segments into which you are adding fields must exist as part of the set provided by SAP. To add fields into a customer-defined segment, that is, a segment that you or someone else has added to DART, it is easier to do so when adding the segment.

Process Flow

The following diagram summarizes the process of adding fields to a SAP-provided segment:

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You first extend the Data Dictionary structure corresponding to the segment.

Every data dictionary structure corresponding to the DART segments has an empty INCLUDE structure. The names of these INCLUDE structures start with CI_. You can add fields to such a data dictionary structure by adding fields to the INCLUDE structure.

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You have finished the process of adding the fields to the DART segment, if both of the following conditions are true:

You are adding only non-numeric fields, that is, fields that are either character or date, and so on.

You are adding fields from the same table or tables that are the source table(s) of the other, existing fields in the segment, and the fields have the same name as the name of the fields in those source tables.

If any one of the above conditions does not apply, then you need to program the function exit FTXW001 to handle the new fields.