Monday, May 7, 2012

ABAP Dictionary

ABAP dictionary is the information base for all developers. This manages all the definitions required for different applications in SAP. ABAP dictionary is completely integrated into ABAP development workbench. All component of ABAP development workbench can access the data definitions stored in data dictionary.

OBJECTS TYPES OF ABAP DICTIONARY

  1. Domain
  2. Tables
  3. Data element
  4. Views
  5. Types
  6. Search help
  7. Lock object

DOMAIN
This describes the technical characteristic of a table field. Specifies the value range which describes allwed data for the fields.Fields referring to the same domain are changed when there is a change made to the domain.
TABLES
They are defined in ABAP dictionary independent of the database.A table having the same structure is then created from this table definition in the underlying database.

DATA ELEMENT
They defines role played by the field the technical context. Fields of the same semantic meaning can refer to the same data element.

TYPE GROUP
While waiting prog we use type command to define data. SAP has defined some frequently used types. For ex SLIS , ABAP. In a prog u can write type-pools and mention the name. Then u can use the types mention in the type goup.


SEARCH HELP
We can create search help for the ztables . U have to use the key field and other fields u wish to create help for.

LOCK OBJECT
In SAP when a person access a particular prog or table it immediately locks  that thing for the user. Similarly when u create a table or anything in SAP u should put a lock, u should also unlock the table after u execute it. 

VIEW
This is used to a view a table or multiple tables combined.



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