Procedure
The maintenance screen for the table is displayed.
You can for example find the table at a later time using this short text.
On this tab, choose an entry from the dropdown box for the Data Browser/Table View Maintenance field. Choose Table maintenance allowed on this tab page if users with the corresponding authorization may change the data in the table using the Data Browser (Transaction SE16). For more information refer to the available options in Data Browser/Table View
Maintenance.Enter a name for the table field in the column Fields. The field name may only contain letters, digits and underlining, and it must begin with a letter. A field name may not be longer than 16 characters.
Select the Key column if the field should be part of the table key.
Enter the name of a
With Data element/Direct type, you can directly enter the data type, field length, decimal places and short text. Press this key again if you want to enter data elements for further fields.
Only a limited functionality is provided for fields without data elements. No foreign keys or fixed values may be defined for such fields, and there is no F1 help.
You must also define the
reference field and reference table on tab page Currency/quantity fields for fields of types CURR (currency) and QUAN (quantity)You also can
include the fields of an existing structure in the table. Note that the field names in the structure may not be longer than 16 places in this case. Maintain the technical settings for the table. The corresponding maintenance screen is displayed with Goto ® Technical settings.The technical settings are a separate object and can be activated and transported separately from the table.
Maintain (if necessary) the foreign key relationships of the table to other tables.The corresponding maintenance screen is displayed if you place the cursor on the check field and choose .
To do this choose Goto
® Indexes.A dialog box appears in which you have to assign the table a development class.
For tables with the
Delivery Class G or E, you must also maintain a customer namespace (key block of the table) for the table entries. SAP cannot change table entries or import new entries in the customer namespace during upgrades. To navigate to the appropriate maintenance transaction, choose Define Customer Namespace on the Attributes tab.Result
During activation, the table and all the indexes on the table are automatically created in the database (if not explicitly excluded when the index was defined). You can display the table definition in the database with Utilities
® Database object ® Display.At activation, the
You can find information about the activation flow in the activation log, which you can display with Utilities
® Activation log. The activation log is displayed automatically if errors occur when the table is activated.Other Options
Constraints
See also:
Technical Settings Indexes Foreign Keys