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APPEND Structure?

Former Member — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:00:27 GMT

Suppose I have appended a structure in a standard SAP table.

What happens to the std table when a new version of table is imported during a upgrade?

Will it be appended automatically or do we need to do it manually.

Thank You

Re: APPEND Structure?

Former Member — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:03:25 GMT

Structures appended to standard tables will not be updated automatically during Upgrade.

You can use SPDD Transaction to check whether modifications done are automatically included during upgrade.

Regards

Meera

Re: APPEND Structure?

Former Member — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:05:34 GMT

Hi subhash,

1. Good question.

2. Suppose the table structure is :

<b>10 fields.

3 fields (of our appended structure)</b>

3. During upgrade,

suppose sap has added 2 fields (11,12),

then

SPECIAL TRANSFORMATION takes place

and the new table will be now

<b>10 fields.

2 fields (of upgrade)

3 fields (of our appended structure)</b>

regards,

amit m.

Re: APPEND Structure?

Former Member — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:09:16 GMT

Hi Amit..

First of all I must thank you for your answer.

I am a bit confused abt it , as I think we use APPEND structure in the customer namespace and we need to do it manually during an upgrade .

If it happens the way you have mentioned then whats the difference between APPEND and INCLUDE?

Thank You

Re: APPEND Structure?

Former Member — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:12:07 GMT

Hi again,

1. .INCLUDE

(which appears in se11 in many tables.)

2. Well,

thats nothing but a technique

of BUNCHING / GROUPING fields

(for ease of re-use)

(instead of again and again

specifying those SET of FIELDS,

in more than 1 table)

(we can as well give each field, field-by-field,

it won't make any difference in database table)

3. However,

Append structure

is FACILITY PROVIDED BY SAP

for customer enhancment of tables.

It behaves differently when

some upgrade is done in that table

by sap itself.

In such case,

when the upgrade occurs,

first the SAP fields (which are added in the standard table)

are first included in the sequence of fields,

AFTER THAT,

our APPEND structure fields,

are appended !!!

regards,

amit m.

Re: APPEND Structure?

Former Member — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:16:24 GMT

Thank You very much Amit..

points awarded!

Great going