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Process documentation Generating the Field Catalog Manually  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Purpose

It may be the case that the data you want to display is not at all or only partially represented by a structure in the Data Dictionary. Then you must use the fields of the field catalog to describe the structure of the output table.

Process Flow

The field catalog is defined in the Data Dictionary through table type LVC_T_FCAT . Each row of the field catalog table explains a field in your output table. Depending on whether a reference structure exists in the DDIC or not, you must at least fill the following fields of the field catalog structure for each field:

Required Fields of the Field Catalog

Output table fields with DDIC reference

Output table fields without DDIC reference

Explanation

FIELDNAME

FIELDNAME

Name of the field of the internal output table

REF_TABLE

  

Name of the DDIC reference structure

REF_FIELD

  

Name of the DDIC reference field (only needed if other than FIELDNAME )

 

INTTYPE

ABAP data type of the field of the internal output table

 

OUTPUTLEN

Column width

 

COLTEXT

Column header

 

SELTEXT

Column description in column selection for layout

Note

See also: Texts in the Field Catalog

 

You pass the field catalog using parameter IT_FIELDCATALOG (see graphic).

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